Sentences with phrase «use precautionary principles»

Wouldn't it be better to use precautionary principles and use adaptive management techniques when it comes to issues surrounding climate change?

Bottom line for researchers and medical personnel: Take the mammalian baby baseline seriously and use a precautionary principle.

Kevin Brodwick, founder of Thinkbaby and Thinksport explains why: «We always use the precautionary principle and as we expect the debate on the safety of nano particles to continue, we asked a simple question: Does the product have to contain nano particles to be an effective sunscreen?

Any process should also use the precautionary principle to ensure that any «solution» does not create other serious problems.

Europe uses the precautionary principle - better safe than sorry.

If our forebears had used the precautionary principle to guide their lives, we would still be living in caves, if alive at all.

Use the precautionary principle and youll always release data

Here we are saying that CO2 from man is driving climate change to a tipping point and therefore we are going to use the precautionary principle to say that we must stop emitting Co2.

And did you also notice how during the Ebola «outbreak» in the U.S. it was l those Dem politicos who were using the precautionary principle and wasteful» abundance of caution» rhetoric to overhype the danger to the American public... you know, Dem politicod like Chris Christ.....

I am in favor of really scaring people about the risks of some of the chemicals in our lives, so that we can motivate political action to use a precautionary principle rather than marketing principles in our management of chemicals.

No, the burden of proof must remain with industry, but the determination should be with the government, and the law must be changed to support the precautionary principle: «We as a society are paying an incredible cost for not using the precautionary principle.»

In regards to the CAGW debate I really don't see how a 25 year old position on treatment of HIV infected individuals is pertinent, but just for the record, using the precautionary principle, I, too, was in favor of the quarantine method.

Not exact matches

The environmental movement makes use of a «precautionary principle» to deal with environmental risks.

«They can become advocates for human rights, which is what I prefer,» Shmaefsky said, by being subjective and advising the use of the precautionary principle to help protect people.

In Spain, the authors of today's letter are urging the Spanish government to rescind diclofenac's approval for veterinary use under «the precautionary principle, which was recognized as a fundamental element of environmental policy at the Rio Conference of 1992.»

Yesterday, Mr. Julian explained why he favours the application of the precautionary principle to nanotechnology, noted the research he used before writing his bill, and commented on a national inventory scheme.

The government's chief scientific adviser Professor Sir Mark Walport has given evidence to the House of Common's Science and Technology Select Committee regarding the use of the precautionary principle in regulations surrounding genetically modified organisms.

A problem with the precautionary principle, which has indeed been used to slow innovation, is that it lacks an expiration date.

The author doses the report by advocating that the precautionary principle be used in international «agreements and treaties, in government policies (taxing dangerous chemicals and giving tax breaks), and in corporate practices.

Dave Asprey: That seems like a precautionary principle kind of thing where you're basically saying, «Use the stuff that has less of a potential downside before you go for the heavy stuff.»

European policy makers are much more apt to use «precautionary principles» than than their American counterparts.

There are many unknowns, but IMO a valid and sensible use of the precautionary principle is to reduce rates of population growth, and also economic growth (but in a way that recognises regional differences).

I see using a long - tail risk basis as the same as applying the precautionary principle: It's a risk that can not be risked.

Industry has used this argument to delay action on endocrine disruptors for years, in spite of calls for the use of the precautionary principle and the obligations in Europe for suppliers to prove safety before they are allowed to sell their products.

3) using the Green Chemistry Principles and the Precautionary Approach to develop new products and manufacturing processes.

regulars and those responding to this thread in particular may be interested in the class assignment I presently have underway: students are required to select an environmental issue of interest to them and compare the blogging from three sites that reflect a stasist perspective (command and control, science certainty, centalised government, precautionary principle) with the blogging from three dynamist sites (libertarian, individual responsibility, free market, adaptation over prevention, non-dogma): I expect that several of the students will use climate change as a topic and would expect that climate audit, real climate and prometheus will be prominent in the analysis.

British architect Austin Williams — http://www.futurecities.org.uk — promotes a human - centred approach to nature; challenges risk - aversion and the precautionary principle; believes that environmentalism is driving down social aspirations; criticises the use of politicised solutions to technical problems; encourages debate, argument, critical dialogue and freedom of expression, and fights for development instead of sustainable development.

«The precautionary principle says we should not accept the risks of certain economic disruption in attempt to control the world's climate on the basis of assumptions that have no supporting evidence and merely because they've been described using computer games.

I find the use of the «precautionary principle» in the political sphere, very odd indeed.

The «only» problem with the «Precautionary principle» as it is being used by the CAGW community is the the 100 — 200 year interval before any «potential harm» is even found.

Obviously it has centuries of «existing use» as the «status quo» energy source, but — just as with any drug company — as more and more evidence of the potentially harmful effects of its product emerge, it would seem that the responsibility of the governing authorities is to impose the precautionary principle and insist that the producers of the substance «prove» that it is harmless (in relation to alternatives).

The precautionary principle says we should not accept the risks of certain economic disruption in attempt to control the world's climate on the basis of assumptions that have no supporting empirical evidence and merely because they've been described using computer games.

GCMs are used to skew the precautionary principle.

If activists were to use associative research and the precautionary principle together, they might well prohibit the use of beds, since most people who die were lying in them.»

Even then, widely used techniques can help reduce challenges for decision - making — including the «precautionary principle», «real options», «adaptive management», «no regrets strategies», or «risk hedging».

Under the precautionary principle agreed in the climate change convention, nations promised not to use scientific uncertainty as an excuse for not taking cost - effective action.

At the same time, USTR is expected to push for provisions in the agreement that encourage patents on human, plant and animal genes and use of cost - benefit analysis rather than the precautionary principle when setting environmental regulatory standards.

Strikingly, the precautionary principle also raises it's head, and probably for the same reason it shows up in climate science: action — drug use — is urged with great frequency despite the fact that our understanding of the situation — in this case various chronic diseases and how to deal with them, is often quite incomplete.

Similarly, the TPP chapter on sanitary measures, if not drafted carefully, could be used to challenge food safety laws based on the precautionary principle such as pesticide residue, chemical additives or genetic modification.

The «look at the number of death», security and precautionary principle has been (and is) used and abused in our western society, at an alarming and increasing rate.

What is lacking is «easy» solution which would allow the use of the precautionary principle (without easy solution, precautionary principle is a terrible trap), so imho the logical conclusion is no - regret policies and further study — certainly not guilt - relieving policies and economic redistribution, which seems to be the current approach...

Nanoparticles may already be a part of your life you just don't know too much about - they are in underwear, socks, and other performance clothing - and another area that could have used a bit of the precautionary principle before consumer products were launched on markets.

Therefore they have decided to support the application of the precautionary principle by stating the uncertainties as less than any objective systematic analysis can support and using subjective judgments as a more reliable basis for quantitative conclusions than they really are.

I have nothing much against the use of «grey literature» (or — I might as well come clean all at once — the precautionary principle, a revenue - neutral carbon tax and opposition to consumerism and overpopulation) but it's got to be solid «grey literature» — Agoumi wasn't — and you've got it to paraphrase it accurately — the IPCC didn't and still hasn't.

Using words like could have «profound» impact, and the open door allowed by saying the projected future impacts are several decades away plays directly into the precautionary principle used by so many global warming advocates.

See, I don't know that the girl from The Ring (which wasn't half as good as Ringu but I digress) isn't going to pop out and get me, so, using the good ol' precautionary principle, I choose not to watch it.

However, it did not consider it possible to lay down any formula capable of satisfactorily distinguishing between retained direct EU law that should be treated for this purpose as primary legislation and that which should be treated as secondary legislation: «We therefore conclude that on balance, and applying a constitutional precautionary principle, it is preferable to treat all retained direct EU law as primary legislation... Henry VIII powers which might be used to amend or repeal this law are a considerably narrower category than the more general and far broader category of secondary legislative powers to which retained direct EU law would otherwise be vulnerable were it designated as secondary legislation.»

The court also noted a special review of whether the pesticide presented an unacceptable environmental risk to amphibians was required by the precautionary principle, which holds that given threats of serious or irreversible damage, lack of full scientific certainty shall not be used as a reason for postponing cost - effective measures to prevent adverse health impact or environmental degradation.

Gary's research interests include the use of genetic information in environmental regulation, risk and the precautionary principle, legal aspects of personalized medicine, and regulation of emerging technologies such as nanotechnology, neuroscience and biotechnology.

Following their interesting decision of last year, to forgo the use of wireless technology at Lakehead University, citing the precautionary principle (para 2).