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The principle provides guidance on a process for avoiding serious or irreversible harm under conditions of uncertainty. Precautionary measures can range from a moratorium on the proposed development, when potential for harm and uncertainty are deemed unacceptable, to careful monitoring of the development project at the other extreme. The principle requires a participatory decision-making process that gains definition and meaning as it is applied in specific situations.

Integrating the use of biodiversity and ecosystem services to help people adapt to the adverse impacts of climate change.Having a healthy environment around us also secures our supply of freshwater, food and other natural resources. These are called'ecosystem services'and are the added benefits that do not come when 'hard' engineered adaptation solutions, such as seawalls, are built.

The Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) is the main agency coordinating turtletagging in the Pacific region to study the migration and life cycle of marine turtles.