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precautionary principle

 
     
  The assertion that, to safeguard the environment, all states have a duty to take precautionary action against possible dangers to the environment. It appears in some environmental instruments, but is not (yet) a principle of customary international law – and were it to become so its imprecision might lessen its utility. See also common but differentiated responsibility, principle of.  
 

 

 

 
 
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