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Report: Evidence backs greater role for environmental 'precautionary principle'
2013-01-23 11:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
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...
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