Key Principles

The following key general principles underlie the work and the position of the Scientific Alliance.

The Scientific Alliance:

•  Supports a rational and informed environmental debate
•  Supports the need for appropriate and targeted environmental protection
•  Believes that environmental policy must be based on scientific evidence
•  Will work to ensure that environmental policies are designed to achieve tangible and significant environmental    benefits
•  Aims to ensure that proposed environmental policy is based on actual environmental damage, not speculation