Sentences with phrase «more precautionary approach»

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Canada, Europe, and several other states (most recently Maine) are taking, or considering taking, a more thoughtful, precautionary approach regarding chemicals in everyday products, especially for children.

She favored a precautionary approach that she said would not suppress innovation, arguing that responsible oversight would allow researchers to take more chances.

Another review in 2012 by the European Environment Agency advised «a precautionary approach to many of these chemicals until their effects are more fully understood.»

BBC News and other outlets are reporting that the start of GM brinjal (eggplant or aubergine, call it what you like...) has been suspended, with environment minister Jairam Ramesh calling for more testing and essentially putting on indefinite hold the introduction of any GM food crops: Ramesh said that due to negative public sentiment it was his «duty to adopt a cautious, precautionary, principle - based approach.»

These technologies are potentially far more powerful than even atomic energy, so they cry out for a prudent, precautionary approach to their testing and possible deployment.

Whether this precautionary approach is an option at all, after two decades of failed climate protection since the 1990 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Report, is more doubtful than ever.

The Convention on the Prevention of Marine Pollution by Dumping of Wastes and Other Matter is probably the right starting point: The purpose of the Protocol is similar to that of the Convention, but the Protocol is more restrictive: application of a «precautionary approach» is included as a general obligation; a «reverse list» approach is adopted, which...