 | Michael Common, Sigrid Stagl - 2005 - 600 pages
...is endorsed: where there is a threat of significant reduction or loss of biological diversity, lack of full scientific certainty should not be used as a reason for postponing measures to avoid or minimize such a threat. It is accepted that the main approach to conservation... | |
 | Alistair Rieu-Clarke - 2005 - 268 pages
...notes that, "where there is a threat of significant reduction or loss of biological diversity, lack of full scientific certainty should not be used as a reason for postponing measures to avoid or minimize such a threat." 69 Convention on the Protection and Use of... | |
 | Norman Myers, Jennifer Kent - 2005 - 313 pages
...clumped in the sea regardless of whether they were damaging. Under the precautionary principle, lack of full scientific certainty should not be used as a reason for postponing measures to prevent environmental damage. The principle has since been adopted by the United... | |
 | Jacqueline Peel - 2005 - 260 pages
...as a requirement that 'where there are threats of serious or irreversible environmental damage, lack of full scientific certainty should not be used as a reason for postponing measures to prevent environmental degradation'.7 The remaining guiding principles are that:... | |
 | United Nations Environment Programme - 2005 - 751 pages
...Noting also that where there is a threat of significant reduction or loss of biological diversity, lack of full scientific certainty should not be used as a reason for postponing measures to avoid or minimize such a threat, Noting further that the fundamental requirement... | |
 | Florian Sauvageau, David Schneiderman, David Taras - 2006 - 272 pages
...causes of environmental degradation. Where there are threats of serious or irreversible damage, lack of full scientific certainty should not be used as a reason for postponing measures to prevent environmental degradation." It was not lost on the Globe and Mail, which... | |
 | Benjamin Baruch - 2005 - 370 pages
...principle that scientific evidence is not necessary to implement radical environmental policies. "Lack of full scientific certainty should not be used as a reason for postponing measures to avoid or m inim ize threats to biological diversity. "30 5. To inventory natural... | |
 | Pall M. Rikhardsson - 2005 - 392 pages
...strategies recommended. (b) if there are threats of serious or irreversible environmental damage, lack of full scientific certainty should not be used as a reason for postponing measures to prevent environmental degradation. Caution is applied implicitly or explicitly... | |
 | Padmashree Gehl Sampath - 2005 - 289 pages
...Noting also that where there is a threat of significant reduction or loss of biological diversity, lack of full scientific certainty should not be used as a reason for postponing measures to avoid or minimize such a threat, Noting further that the fundamental requirement... | |
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The Parties should take precautionary measures to anticipate, prevent or minimize the causes of climate change and mitigate its adverse effects, where there are threats of serious or irreversible damage, lack of full scientific certainty should not be... 
