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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... "
Management Planning for Nature Conservation: A Theoretical Basis & Practical ... - Page 229
by Mike Alexander - 2007 - 426 pages
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La revolución del derecho de seguros y del derecho laboral: derecho y ...

Pinkas Flint Blanck - 1998 - 108 pages
...daño serio e irreversible(48). Esta Conferencia recogió el principio precautorio al afirmar que: Where there are threats of serious or irreversible damage, lack of full scientific certainty should not be used as a reason for postponing costeffective measures to prevent such environmental...
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Models of Economic Growth with Environmental Assets

A. Beltratti - 1996 - 142 pages
...Ministerial Declaration on Sustainable Development in the ECE Region (May 1990), where it is stated that "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." Knight...
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Scientific Integrity and Public Trust: The Science Behind Federal ..., Volume 4

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science. Subcommittee on Energy and Environment - 1996 - 1212 pages
...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 used as a reason for postponing such measures, taking into account that policies and...
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Policy Making in an Era of Global Environmental Change

R. E. Munn, J. W. M. La Rivière, N. van Lookeren Campagne - 1996 - 250 pages
...Environmental measures must anticipate, prevent and attack the 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. A similar...
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International Law and the Conservation of Biological Diversity

Michael Bowman, Catherine Redgwell - 1996 - 350 pages
..."anticipate, prevent and attack the causes of reduction or loss of biodiversity at source", and provided that "lack of full scientific certainty shall not be used as a reason for postponing [action or measures] to avoid or minimise a threat to biodiversity".18 This wording reflected...
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Ecological Sustainability and Integrity: Concepts and Approaches

J. Lemons, L. Westra, Robert Goodland - 1997 - 340 pages
...precautionary principle (Principle 15 of the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development), states: In order to protect the environment, the precautionary...postponing cost-effective measures to prevent environmental damage.51 Finally, how will the WLSA vote and act when environmental protection conflicts with local...
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Ill-health Canada: Promoting Food and Drug Profits Instead of Their Safety

Michael McBane, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives - 2005 - 138 pages
...Act states that, under the laws of Canada, the government must apply the precautionary principle... Where there are threats of serious or irreversible...of full scientific certainty shall not be used as reason for postponing cost-effective measures to prevent environmental degradation." -AuditorGeneral...
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Genes on the Menu: Facts for Knowledge-Based Decisions

Paul Pechan, Gert de Vries - 2005 - 236 pages
...environment the precautionary approach shall be widely applied by States according to their capability. Where there are threats of serious or irreversible...damage, lack of full scientific certainty shall not be pursued as a reason for postponing cost-effective measures to prevent environmental degradation. The...
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Environmental Management in Organizations: The IEMA Handbook

John Brady - 2013 - 461 pages
...should be widely applied by states according to ability and that 'where there are threats of serous or irreversible damage, lack of full scientific certainty shall not be used as a reason for postponing cost effective measures to prevent environmental degradation'. In the recent case of Pfizer...
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Ozone Protection: The International Legal Regime

Gilbert M. Bankobeza - 2005 - 369 pages
...according to their capabilities. Where there are threats of serious or irreversible damage, lack of scientific certainty shall not be used as a reason...postponing cost-effective measures to prevent environmental degradation.4 There are two aspects of the principle. First, the principle is applied where threats...
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