 | Margaret Arnold - 2006 - 204 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Timothy C. Earle, Michael Siegrist, Heinz Gutscher - 2012 - 313 pages
...(European Commission, 2000). Principle 15 of the Rio Declaration (UNEP, 1992), for example, states that: Where there are threats of serious or irreversible...cost-effective measures to prevent environmental degradation. The consideration of 'threats of serious or irreversible damage' is focusing on the potential costs... | |
 | Sybille van den Hove, Vincent Moreau - 2007 - 88 pages
...and Cameron 7994; Stirling. 2007 and Harremoes et al, 2001 The Precautionary Principle states that: "Where there are threats of serious or irreversible...cost-effective measures to prevent environmental degradation. " Principle 1 5 of the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development (UN 1 992) The precautionary... | |
 | Han Somsen - 2007 - 291 pages
...Principle 15 of the Rio Declaration (Rio Declaration on Environment and Development 1992) as follows: 'Where there are threats of serious or irreversible...cost-effective measures to prevent environmental degradation'. For another version of the PP, found in Article 10.6 of the Cartagena Protocol (Cartagena Protocol... | |
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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... 
