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Implementing conservation and sustainable management of marine biodiversity in areas beyond national jurisdiction

… national jurisdiction; e. require application of the precautionary approach as set out in Principle 15 of the Rio Declaration on environment and … ocean management built on transparency, accountability, precautionary and ecosystem approaches, and improving …
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Marine plastic debris and microplastics – Global lessons and research to inspire action and guide policy change

… 8.2 The Precautionary Approach and adaptive management … prioritization of targeted inter- ventions; (m) Using the precautionary principle and taking into account that there is unequivocal …
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Governance of Shared Waters - Legal and Institutional Issues

… sovereignty over international rivers is limited by the principle of freedom of navigation. However, if the … essential services. Sustainability is also related to the precautionary principle, a fundamental principle of … signed since 1990. The principle of precaution, or the precautionary principle, applied to shared basins implies …
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The Fish Stock Agreement - extract from InforMEA e-learning course

… 2. Objective and scope 3. Broader obligations 4. Precautionary approach 5. Compatibility of measures and … of states broader, stronger and more detailed. 4. Precautionary approach The widening of the obligations is, … (4)). While this is a treaty provision that applies in principle only between states that are parties to the 1995 …
21 May 2026 Course lesson in Marine and Freshwater

Albania and marine protected areas: Legal and insituttional framework assessment for conservation of coastal and marine biodiversity and establishment of MPAs

… the following international environmental principles? • Precautionary Principle • Public participation and access to information. … or the protection of marine ecosystems, based on a precautionary approach. There is a chapter on management of …
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Background document - 1995 United Nations Fish Stocks Agreement

… and management of such stocks must be based on the precautionary approach and the best scientific evidence … The Agreement also elaborates on the fundamental principle established in the Convention that States should … functions; - Establishing general principles, such as the precautionary and ecosystem approaches for the conservation …
21 May 2026 Document in Marine and Freshwater

Transitioning to a pollution-free planet

… agenda – universality, inclusiveness, sustainability, precautionary and integration – respectively imply that: (i) … using polluter pays approaches (sustainability) (iv) Precautionary approaches are essential for guiding change, as … international agreements (Target 16.10) and in line with Principle 10 of the Rio Declaration and the Bali Guidelines …
21 May 2026 Document in Environmental Governance

UNEP’s Compendium of Innovative Laws: promoting Green Economy & Sustainable Development

… include significant links to sustainable development as a principle that informs the terms of these laws. As noted in … principle of preventative and corrective actions;  the precautionary principle;  the polluter pays principle;  the … consider the entire environment as a whole entity; c) the precautionary principle, which requires that where there is a …
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Compendium of Summaries of Judgments in Environmen Related Cases

… Compulsory Acquisition United States 4, 5 Polluter Pays Principle India 1, 3, 5, 11, 35 Pollution Australia 6, 7 … Lanka 9 United States 3 “Practical Approach” Australia 2 Precautionary Principle Argentina 1 Australia 1, 2, 3 … This was in accordance with the principle demanding a precautionary approach to scientific uncertainty embodied in …
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Transboundary Water Governance - Adaptation to Climate Change

… . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 2.4.2 The precautionary principle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . … the Berlin Rules also explicitly incorporate the precautionary principle, stating that: “… in implementing …
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