Sentences with phrase «involving uncertain outcomes»

An excellent example of an environmental issue involving uncertain outcomes that requires application of the precautionary principle, not cost - benefit analysis, is regulation of synthetic biology.

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Many important questions of environmental policy, however, involve inescapably uncertain outcomes... How much global warming will it take to trigger the irreversible collapse and melting of the Greenland ice sheet?»

All that supports the conclusion that the outcome may involve severe damages while leaving it uncertain whether those will be really serious even in long term.