| Anne Chapman - 2007 - 191 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 used as a reason for postponing cost-effective measures to prevent environmental degradation.... | |
| Elizabeth Wilmshurst, Susan Breau - 2007 - 32 pages
...peacetime. The precautionary principle is stated in Principle 15 of the 1992 Rio Declaration95 as follows: '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.'... | |
| Michele M. Betsill, Elisabeth Corell - 2007 - 264 pages
...notable inclusion in Principle 15 of the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development, which states: "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"... | |
| Paul Weirich - 2007 - 272 pages
...environment, namely, the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development. It states the principle this way: "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 Legault - 308 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...used as a reason for postponing such measures..." 9 Liquified Natural Gas In 2005 natural gas made up 21% of world primary energy consumption, compared... | |
| David Layfield - 2008 - 212 pages
...develop what ecologists have called a precautionary principle. According to the 1992 Earth Summit: where there are threats of serious or irreversible...scientific certainty should not be used as a reason for postponing cost effective measures to prevent environmental damage, (quoted by Westra 1998: 13) The... | |
| 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... | |
| 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.... | |
| Sarah Wilks - 2008 - 294 pages
...precautionary principle — namely, that 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. In the application of the precautionary principle,... | |
| 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... | |
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