GUIDELINES FOR APPLYING THE PRECAUTIONARY …
The Precautionary Principle has been widely incorporated, in various forms, in international environmental agreements and declarations and further developed in a number of national laws. An element common to the various formulations of the Precautionary Principle is the recognition that lack of certainty regarding the threat
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NOVEMBER 2017 FORESTS AND CLIMATE CHANGE - IUCN
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