International Global Climate Change Negotiations: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Energy and Power of the Committee on Commerce, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fifth Congress, First Session, July 15, 1997--The Economic and Environmental Impact of the Proposed Agreement, November 11, 1997--States of International Global Climate Change Negotiations, Volume 4

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Page 423 - ... recognize the worldwide and longrange character of environmental problems, and, where consistent with the foreign policy of the United States, lend appropriate support to initiatives, resolutions, and programs designed to maximize international cooperation in anticipating and preventing a decline in the quality of mankind's world environment...
Page 21 - Change (IPCC) concluded that the balance of evidence suggests "a discernible human influence on the climate system.
Page 16 - Economic studies have found that there are many potential policies to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions for which the total benefits outweigh the total costs. For the United States in particular, sound economic analysis shows that there are policy options that would slow climate change without harming American living standards, and these measures may in fact improve US productivity in the longer run.
Page 455 - The Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to this Protocol shall, at its first session, approve appropriate and effective procedures and mechanisms to determine and to address cases of non-compliance with the provisions of this Protocol, including through the development of an indicative list of consequences, taking into account the cause, type, degree and frequency of non-compliance. Any procedures and mechanisms under this article entailing binding consequences shall be...
Page 422 - Defense, the Atomic Energy Commission, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and the National Science Foundation, plus internal funding for on-going data work.
Page 435 - These innovations will cut worldwide pollution, keep costs low, and help developing countries protect their environment, too, without sacrificing their economic growth. Third, both industrialized and developing countries must participate in meeting the challenge of climate change. The industrialized world must lead, but developing countries also must be engaged. The United States will not assume binding obligations unless key developing nations meaningfully participate in this effort.
Page 3 - Nevertheless, the balance of evidence suggests that there is a discernible human influence on global climate.
Page 20 - bring to the Kyoto conference a strong American commitment to realistic and binding limits that will significantly reduce our emissions of greenhouse gases.
Page 422 - Council staff, the Office of Science and Technology Policy, the Office of Management and Budget, and other senior policy officials in the "nuclear community" to help ensure that we continue on the right track.
Page 20 - Human beings increase the concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere primarily by the burning of fossil fuels — coal, oil and natural gas -- and through a number of other industrial processes.

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