...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 10 Prepared by Michael Simpson, Specialist in Life Sciences, and John E. Blodgett. Deputy Assistant...

...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'. Canada...

...the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), to which Canada is a signatory: "Where there are threats of serious or irreversible damage, lack of full scientific certainty sball not be used as a reason for postponing cost-effective measures to prevent environmental degradation.'...

...over the so-called precautionary principle. The precautionary principle presumes "that in situations where there are threats of serious or irreversible damage, lack of full scientific certainty should not be used as reason for postponing measures to prevent environmental degradation." 1 In effect,...

...with, but not very helpful for the resolution of specific controversies. Likewise, we are told that lack of full scientific certainty shall not be used as 'a reason for postponing measures to prevent environmental degradation'. Since scientific certainty is almost never...

...their capabilities. Where there are threats of serious or irreversible damage to the soil environment, lack of full scientific certainty shall not be used as a reason for postponing measures to prevent soil degradation. This Principle is central to the scheme of ecosystem-based...

...eigentlich in der Einleitung stehen, in der die Grundlagen der Rio-Deklaration formuliert werden. 110 "(...) Where there are threats of serious or irreversible damage, lack of full scientiflc certainty shall not be used as a reason for postponing cost-effective measures to prevent...

...environment. LINKING GLOBALIZATION, CONSUMPTION, AND GOVERNANCE national environmental law that holds that "where there are threats of serious or irreversible damage, lack of mil scientific certainty shall not be used as a reason for postponing cost-effective measures to prevent...

...Environment. Principle 15 of the Rio Declaration The Quest for Environmental Justice II 181 reads, "Where there are threats of serious or irreversible damage, lack of full stöntifis ssrtainty shall not ut usto as a reason for postponing rosftffectlYC measures to prevent...

...precaution than Article 15 of the 1992 Rio Declaration on the precautionary principle, which states: 'Where there are threats of serious or irreversible...as a reason for postponing costeffective measures'. Raustiala (2002) notes that precaution is obvious in the ESA listing process: full certainty about...