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Glossary of terms for negotiators of multilateral environmental agreements

… additions to existing documents. Additionality 1) Funding principle envisaged to ensure that the Global Environment … or recommendation and that help interpreting the document. Precautionary approach/ principle Approach/principle … Declaration on Environment and Development. Whereby the precautionary approach is often used in negotiations to infer …
21 May 2026 Literature See it in ECOLEX · This content is provided by ECOLEX

The greening of water law: Managing freshwater resources for people and the environment

… and allocation of freshwater resources. These include the principle of equitable and reasonable utilization, as well as … Articles also mandate that “Aquifer States shall take a precautionary approach in view of uncertainty about the … that the Parties “shall be guided,” inter alia, by the precautionary principle, the principle of preventive action, …
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Towards a strategy for high seas marine protected areas: Proceedings of the IUCN, WCPA and WWF Experts Workshop on High Seas Marine Protected Areas

… biodiversity in the marine environment and to apply the precautionary approach, which requires the proponents of … prudent use of natural resources, and application of the precautionary principle. The EU Biodiversity Action Plan for Fisheries …
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Mediterranean strategy for sustainable development 2016-2015: Investing in environmental sustainability to achieve social and economic development

… opportunity to participate. MSSD 2016-2025 is based on the principle that socio-economic development needs to be … a balanced approach to territorial development; the precautionary and polluter pays principles; a participatory … a balanced approach to territorial development; the precautionary and polluter pays principles; a participatory …
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Climate Change and the Human Rights to Water and Sanitation Position Paper

… Any payment for water services has to be based on the principle of equity, ensuring that these services, whether … and rigid economic modelling, without sufficient regard to precautionary approaches and the broader public interest. The … Development Report” team has argued for a flexible and precautionary approach to policy-making that transcends the …
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AEWA Conservation Guidelines No. 10 - Guidelines on Avoidance of Introductions of Non-native Waterbird Species (TS No. 12)

… and there is a general consensus that, according to the precautionary principle, wherever possible, such species should be … limited (see previous section). Hence, considering the precautionary principle the wisest policy is to prohibit any …
21 May 2026 Document

Climate Change- International Legal Regime - extract from InforMEA e-learning course

… the measures that are needed to counteract such change.” PRINCIPLE OF COMMON BUT DIFFERENTIATED RESPONSIBILITIES AND … These principles include inter-generational equity, the precautionary approach, the right to sustainable development … https://www.informea.org/fr/terms/precautionary-principle
01 Mar 2017 Course lesson in Climate and Atmosphere

Spring: Managing groundwater sustainability

… accountability, sub- sidiarity, conjunctive use and the precautionary principle. Water users should take part in developing … to the groundwater eventually exceeding these limits. As a precautionary measure, these areas were desig- nated as …
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Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders_2016 Report

… in Latin America and the Caribbean on the application of principle 10 of the Rio Declaration on Environment and … human rights defenders through court decisions and “precautionary measures”, requesting States to take action … project; (f) Guarantee the effective implementation of any precautionary or urgent measures granted to environmental …
21 May 2026 Document in Environmental Governance

C1 - No Significant Harm, Pollution Prevention and Quality Standards

… Scope: The class is devoted to the “no significant harm” principle. In particular, we discuss the prevention, … impacts. The class addresses the manner in which the principle is implemented at the (international) basin level … At Art. 2.5, the UNECE Water Convention indicates that the precautionary principle, the principle of inter-generational …
21 May 2026 Course lesson in Environmental Governance