 The Parties should take precautionary 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...  Genetic Democracy: Philosophical Perspectives - Page 79edited by - 2007 - 148 pagesLimited preview - About this book
 | Michael Bowman, Catherine Redgwell - 1996 - 350 pages
..."anticipate, prevent and attack the causes of reduction or loss of biodiversity at source", and provided that "lack of full scientific certainty shall not be used as a reason for postponing [action or measures] to avoid or minimise a threat to biodiversity".18 This wording reflected... | |
 | Henrik Ringbom - 1997 - 286 pages
...the precautionary approach shall be widely applied by States according to their capabilities. When there are threats of serious or irreversible damage,...scientific certainty shall not be used as a reason for postponing cost effective measures to prevent environmental degradation.' This Principle is made more... | |
 | Joyeeta Gupta - 1997 - 274 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... | |
 | John T. Houghton - 1997 - 270 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... | |
 | Nick Mabey - 1997 - 466 pages
...principle is included in the convention which logically overrides strict cost/benefit calculations: '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 3.3). Given these agreed principles... | |
 | Sue Elworthy, Jane Holder - 1997 - 532 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." (Bergen... | |
 | E. Lauterpacht, C. J. Greenwood, A. G. Oppenheimer - 1997 - 832 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." (Bergen... | |
 | United Nations Environment Programme - 1997 - 468 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... | |
 | Kevin T. Pickering, Lewis A. Owen - 1997 - 584 pages
...measures to anticipate, present 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... | |
 | Adam Burgess - 2004 - 314 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. (Raffensperger and Tickner 1999: 2.) Yet... | |
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