 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
 | Stephen Holland - 2007 - 239 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.... | |
 | Mike Alexander - 2007 - 426 pages
...geographical unit, potential value, intrinsic appeal. The description of something that we want to achieve. 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.... | |
 | Timothy C. Earle, Michael Siegrist, Heinz Gutscher - 2012 - 313 pages
...(European Commission, 2000). Principle 15 of the Rio Declaration (UNEP, 1992), for example, states 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.... | |
 | Albert A. Anderson - 2008 - 356 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.... | |
 | Markus J. Kachel - 2008 - 376 pages
...evolving.134 In the international arena, its legal meaning is highly contentious.135 It generally states that "[w]here 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."136... | |
 | Martin Peterson - 2008 - 176 pages
...that the precautionary principle should be applied if there is a lack of 'full scientific certainty': 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... | |
 | World Trade Organization - 2008 - 511 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.... | |
 | Fritz Allhoff, Patrick Lin - 2008 - 320 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."11... | |
 | Michael I. Jeffery, Jeremy Firestone, Karen Bubna-Litic - 2008 - 622 pages
...http://www.4.worldbank.org/legal/legen/legen-biosafety.html. 12 Principle 15 of the Rio Declaration 1992 defines it as: "where there are threats of serious or irreversible damage, lack of full scientific certainty shall not be used as reason for postponing cost-effective measures to prevent environmental degradation."... | |
 | Genevieve Fuji Johnson - 2008 - 185 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.103... | |
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