Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Report: Evidence backs greater role for environmental 'precautionary principle'

BusinessGreen: Policymakers and businesses have been urged to take a more cautious approach to the development and deployment of new technologies, following the publication today of a major new report arguing that early warnings from scientists about the environmental impacts of new technologies are often entirely justified. The 750-page study from the European Environment Agency (EEA) provides an update to the Late Lessons report of 2001, which explored how new technologies were later found to have harmful...

URL: http://www.businessgreen.com/bg/news/2238358/report-evidence-backs-greater-role-for-environmental-precautionary-principle?WT.rss_f=Home&WT.rss_a=Report%3A+Evidence+backs+greater+role+for+environmental+%27precautionary+principle%27
Enclosure: http://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/late-lessons-2

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