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" ... 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 measures... "
Scientific Integrity and Public Trust: The Science Behind Federal Policies ... - Page 662
by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science. Subcommittee on Energy and Environment - 1996 - 1190 pages
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Ethics & Climate Change: The Greenhouse Effect

Calgary Institute for the Humanities - 1993 - 215 pages
...taking into account that policies and measures to deal with climate change should be cost-effective so as to ensure global benefits at the lowest possible...be carried out cooperatively by interested Parties. Logical argumentation fails, however, as one moves to the "commitments" article, which is the nub of...
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Negotiating Survival: Four Priorities After Rio

Richard N. Gardner - 1992 - 100 pages
...taking into account that policies and measures to deal with climate change should be cost-effective so as to ensure global benefits at the lowest possible...comprehensive, cover all relevant sources, sinks and reseviors of greenhouse gases and adaptation, and comprise all economic sectors. Efforts to address...
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International Conventions on Protection of Humanity and Environment

Günter Hoog, Angela Steinmetz - 1993 - 660 pages
...taking into account that policies and measures to deal with climate change should be cost-effective so as to ensure global benefits at the lowest possible...be carried out cooperatively by interested Parties. 4. The Parties have a right to, and should, promote sustainable development Policies and measures to...
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Negotiating Climate Change: The Inside Story of the Rio Convention

Irving M. Mintzer, J. Amber Leonard - 1994 - 412 pages
...taking into account that policies and measures to deal with climate change should be cost-effective so as to ensure global benefits at the lowest possible...be carried out cooperatively by interested Parties. 4. The Parties have a right to, and should, promote sustainable development. Policies and measures...
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Climate Change: Significance for Agriculture and Forestry: Systems ...

David White, S. Mark Howden - 1994 - 162 pages
...acknowledged the importance of both agriculture and forestry. The future development of appropriate policies and measures should take into account different...socio-economic contexts, be comprehensive, cover all relevant Climatic Change 27:5-11, 1994. sources, sinks and reservoirs of greenhouse gases, include adaptation...
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Climate Change 1995: Economic and Social Dimensions of Climate Change ...

Hoe-sŏng Yi, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Working Group III. - 1996 - 462 pages
...and in accordance with the Framework Convention on Climate Change, the work of the Working Group will be comprehensive, cover all relevant sources, sinks...and adaptation and comprise all economic sectors. The Working Group was also enjoined to assess available literature in these fields, to avoid policy...
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An Introduction to Global Environmental Issues

Kevin T. Pickering, Lewis A. Owen - 1997 - 584 pages
...of scientific certainty, so that parties should: take precautionary measures to anticipate, present or minimize the causes of climate change and mitigate...Efforts to address climate change may be carried out cooperatcly by interested Parties. The UK's commitment to reducing its CO2 emissions is set out in...
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The Climate Change Convention and Developing Countries: From Conflict to ...

Joyeeta Gupta - 1997 - 274 pages
...taking into account that policies and measures to deal with climate change should be cost-effective so as to ensure global benefits at the lowest possible...be carried out cooperatively by interested Parties. 4. The Parties have a right to, and should, promote sustainable development. Policies and measures...
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Handbook of Environmental Law

United Nations Environment Programme - 1997 - 468 pages
...taking into account that policies and measures to deal with climate change should be cost-effective so as to ensure global benefits at the lowest possible...be carried out cooperatively by interested Parties. 4. The Parties have a right to, and should, promote sustainable development. Policies and measures...
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Climate Change Policy: Facts, Issues and Analyses

Catrinus J. Jepma, Mohan Munasinghe - 1997 - 354 pages
...there are threats of serious or irreversible damage, lack of full scientific certainty should not he used as a reason for postponing such measures, taking...be carried out cooperatively by interested Parties" (UNFCCC 1992). As an example of the precautionary approach, consider Figure 3.1c. Here, although the...
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