Adverse effects

Description: Adverse effects are changes in the physical environment or biota, including changes in climate, which have significant deleterious effects on human health or on the composition, resilience and productivity of natural and managed ecosystems, or on materials useful to mankind.Source: Vienna Convention on the Protection of the Ozone Layer 1985Description: Adverse effects [of climate change] means changes in the physical environment or biota resulting from [climate change] which have significant deleterious effects on the composition, resilience or productivity of natural and managed ecosystems or on the operation of socio-economic systems or on human health and welfare.Source: UN Framework Convention on Climate Change Description: Adverse effects are potential or probable changes in the physical environment or biota, including changes in climate, which have significant deleterious effects on human health or on the composition, resilience and productivity of natural and managed ecosystems, or in materials useful to humans. <br> «Effects» includes any effect on biodiversity that is direct or indirect, positive or adverse, immediate or delayed, potential or probable, temporary or permanent, adverse consequences, on inter alia (i) human beings, flora and fauna; (ii) soil, water, air and landscape; (iii) the interaction between the factors in (i) and (ii); (iv) material assets and cultural heritage, including historical monuments.Source: New Zealand Description: Adverse effects should not necessarily be restricted to industrial accidents but should include other causes. <br>Impacts on the physical environment, including the composition, resilience and productivity of natural or managed ecosystems, biota and human health, caused by experimentation in a natural setting, the release or transboundary movement of living organisms modified by biotechnology.Source: Peru Description: Adverse effects are consequences of activities involving LMOs which are deleterious to the conservation and sustainable use of biological diversity. These effects may be direct or indirect, immediate or delayed. Australia.<br>Adverse effects means any direct or indirect, immediate or delayed adverse consequences caused by LMOs accident on, inter alia, human health, biodiversity.Source: China Description: «Effects» means any direct or indirect, immediate or delayed adverse consequences caused by an [industrial] accident on, inter alia, (i) human beings, flora and fauna; (ii) soil, water, air and landscape; (iii) the interaction between the factors in (i) and (ii); (iv) material assets and cultural heritage, including historical monuments.Source: Convention on the Transboundary Effects of Industrial Accidents 1992