 | Marjan Peeters, K. Deketelaere - 2006 - 346 pages
...prevent or minimize the causes of climate change and mitigate its adverse effects', specifying that '[w]here there are threats of serious or irreversible damage, lack of full scientific certainty should not be used as a reason for postponing such measures'. This precautionary duty is, nevertheless,... | |
 | N. Niessen - 2006 - 355 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... | |
 | Ball, David - 2006 - 296 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. Where... | |
 | Shizuka Oshitani - 2013 - 348 pages
...driving force for political, economic and social change. Article 3.3 adopts a precautionary principle: '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'. Article 3.1 is underpinned by the notion... | |
 | Peter Orebech, Fred Bosselman, Jes Bjarup, David Callies, Martin Chanock, Hanne Petersen - 2005 - 440 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... | |
 | Elizabeth Charlotte Fisher, Judith S. Jones, René von Schomberg - 2006 - 353 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... | |
 | Daud Hassan - 2006 - 266 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 48 Alheritiere, D., Environmental Impact Assessment and Agricultural Development: A Comparative Study;... | |
 | Rob Ord - 2006 - 247 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 369 See also Hirsch, WZ Law and Economy: an Introductory Analysis (3rd Edn) (New York: Associated Press,... | |
 | Michael Lockwood, Graeme Worboys, Ashish Kothari - 2006 - 833 pages
...the precautionary principle should be adopted, such that a lack of full scientific certainty is not used as a reason for postponing cost-effective measures to prevent environmental degradation. Organizations must be willing to take action in advance of full, formal scientific proof. People proposing... | |
 | Elizabeth Wilmshurst, Susan Breau - 2007 - 32 pages
...even in peacetime. The precautionary principle is stated in Principle 15 of the 1992 Rio Declaration95 as follows: 'Where there are threats of serious or...cost-effective measures to prevent environmental degradation.' The earliest environmental protection measures were put into place following scientific assessments... | |
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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... 
