 In order to protect the environment, the precautionary approach shall be widely applied by States according to their capabilities. Where there are threats of serious or irreversible damage, lack of full scientific certainty shall not be used as a reason...  Negotiating Survival: Four Priorities After Rio - Page 75by Richard N. Gardner - 1992 - 90 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Thomas J. Schoenbaum - 2006 - 307 pages
...refers to the "precautionary approach" to protecting the global environment. This is the idea that "where there are threats of serious or irreversible damage, lack of full scientific certainty shall not be used as a reason for postponing cost-effective measures to prevent environmental degradation."... | |
 | Roy M. Harrison - 2006 - 345 pages
...The Rio Declaration on Environment and Development 1992 referred to the precautionary approach as: "where there are threats of serious or irreversible damage, lack of full scientific certainty shall not be used as a reason for postponing cost-effective measures to prevent environment degradation."... | |
 | Salman M. A. Salman, Daniel D. Bradlow - 2006 - 218 pages
...environment, the precautionary approach shall be widely applied by States according to their capabilities. Where there are threats of serious or irreversible damage, lack of full scientific certainty shall not be used as a reason for postponing cost-effective measures to prevent environmental degradation."... | |
 | Ball, David - 2006 - 296 pages
...environment, the precautionary approach shall be widely applied by States according to their capabilities. Where there are threats of serious or irreversible damage, lack of full scientific certainty shall not be used as a reason for postponing cost-effective measures to prevent environmental degradation.... | |
 | Rosemary Lyster, Adrian Bradbrook - 2006 - 268 pages
...development and environmental needs of present and future generations. The precautionary approach is that, 'where there are threats of serious or irreversible damage, lack of full scientific certainty shall not be used as a 99 A/CONF. 151/26 (Vol III). reason for postponing cost-effective measures to... | |
 | Mani - 2006 - 348 pages
...environment, the precautionary approach shall be widely applied by States according to their capabilities. Where there are threats of serious or irreversible damage, lack of full scientific certainty shall not be used as a reason for postponing cost-effective measures to prevent environmental degradation.... | |
 | Jennifer A. Zerk - 2006 - 14 pages
...International Law, p. 83. 26 Birnie and Boyle, International Law and the Environment, pp. 104-5. 27 Ie 'Where there are threats of serious or irreversible damage, lack of full scientific certainty shall not be used as a reason for postponing cost-effective measures to prevent environmental degradation';... | |
 | Marcello Basili, Maurizio Franzini, Alessandro Vercelli - 2006 - 272 pages
...in regulatory policy. In the Rio Declaration (at the 1992 Earth Summit), for instance, it is stated: 'Where there are threats of serious or irreversible damage, lack of full scientific certainty shall not be used as a reason for postponing costeffective measures to prevent environmental degradation'... | |
 | John R. Nolon - 2006 - 431 pages
...environment, the precautionary approach shall be widely applied by States according to their capabilities. Where there are threats of serious or irreversible damage, lack of full scientific certainty shall not be used as a reason for postponing cost-effective measures to prevent environmental degradation.... | |
 | G. Alan Tarr, Robert F. Williams - 2012 - 382 pages
...example, the Rio Declaration explicitly urges a "precautionary approach" to scientific uncertainty: "Where there are threats of serious or irreversible damage, lack of full scientific certainty shall not be used as a reason for postponing cost-effective measures to prevent environmental degradation."64... | |
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