Practice question
A sustainable-development plan promotes new technology but deliberately prohibits scientific and technological knowledge exchange with other States solely as irrelevant to capacity-building. Which Rio principle directly contradicts that premise?
- Principle 9’s cooperation in scientific understanding, technology and endogenous capacity-building
- A rule that all science is forbidden
- A rule that local capacity must disappear
- A rule that only imported slogans matter
- A rule that sustainable development excludes technology
Legal references
- Rio Declaration on Environment and Development, Principles 8-10, 17, 20 and 22: https://www.cbd.int/doc/ref/rio-declaration.shtml
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