Global Climate Change: Adequacy of the National Action Plan : Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Economic Policy, Trade, and Environment of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, First Session, March 1, 1993, Volume 4U.S. Government Printing Office, 1993 - 121 pages |
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... draft action plan should be revised or completely scrapped . This question is largely a matter of semantics . In either case , the think- ing and the public comment that has gone on is relevant and should be used in moving forward ; and ...
... draft action plan should be revised or completely scrapped . This question is largely a matter of semantics . In either case , the think- ing and the public comment that has gone on is relevant and should be used in moving forward ; and ...
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... draft plan . That too needs to be changed to be strategic . It needs to contain specific goals that will drive the program and ac- tions to assist the U.S. private sector in undertaking projects abroad . The present draft on technology ...
... draft plan . That too needs to be changed to be strategic . It needs to contain specific goals that will drive the program and ac- tions to assist the U.S. private sector in undertaking projects abroad . The present draft on technology ...
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... draft National Action Plan . We have about four or five comments that I will briefly touch on . I will just simply summarize our full comments , that have been submitted in writing to the subcommittee . First , we believe that the ...
... draft National Action Plan . We have about four or five comments that I will briefly touch on . I will just simply summarize our full comments , that have been submitted in writing to the subcommittee . First , we believe that the ...
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... draft National Action Plan for Global Climate Change , published in December 1992 : The draft Plan needs a 180 ° shift in orientation , to become a strategic , document that sets goals and drives actions within the Administration . The ...
... draft National Action Plan for Global Climate Change , published in December 1992 : The draft Plan needs a 180 ° shift in orientation , to become a strategic , document that sets goals and drives actions within the Administration . The ...
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... draft . I will expand briefly upon each of these recommendations , and will be happy to explain our thinking further in response to questions . ( 1 ) The draft Plan needs a 180 ° shift in orientation , to become a strategic document ...
... draft . I will expand briefly upon each of these recommendations , and will be happy to explain our thinking further in response to questions . ( 1 ) The draft Plan needs a 180 ° shift in orientation , to become a strategic document ...
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Page 4 - Convention, stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system. Such a level should be achieved within a time-frame sufficient to allow ecosystems to adapt naturally to climate change, to ensure that food production is not threatened and to enable economic development to proceed in a sustainable manner.
Page 66 - Protocol for the period referred to in subparagraph (a), with the aim of returning individually or jointly to their 1990 levels these anthropogenic emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases not controlled by the Montreal Protocol.
Page 54 - Promote and cooperate in the development, application and diffusion, including transfer, of technologies, practices and processes that control, reduce or prevent anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases not controlled by the Montreal Protocol in all relevant sectors, including the energy, transport, industry, agriculture, forestry and waste management sectors...
Page 66 - Article 12, detailed information on its policies and measures referred to in subparagraph (a) above, as well as on its resulting projected anthropogenic emissions by sources and removals by sinks of greenhouse gases not controlled by the Montreal Protocol for the period referred to in subparagraph (a), with the aim of returning individually or jointly to their 1990 levels these anthropogenic emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases...
Page 66 - Parties' starting points and approaches, economic structures and resource bases, the need to maintain strong and sustainable economic growth, available technologies and other individual circumstances, as well as the need for equitable and appropriate contributions by each of these Parties to the global effort regarding that objective.
Page 44 - I shall incorporate in its annual inventory of anthropogenic emissions by sources and removals by sinks of greenhouse gases not controlled by the Montreal Protocol, submitted in accordance with the relevant decisions of the Conference of the Parties...
Page 42 - Previously I was an Environmental Scientist at the Environmental Protection Agency, where I was the lead author of the Report to Congress Policy Options for Stabilizing Global Climate.
Page 5 - Convention, recognizing that the return by the end of the present decade to earlier levels of anthropogenic emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases not controlled by the Montreal Protocol...
Page 42 - NRDC is a non-profit environmental protection organization, founded in 1970 and supported by 170,000 members. NRDC's Energy Program has more than ten years of experience in promoting energy efficiency and least-cost energy planning. In 1988 NRDC launched its Atmosphere Protection Initiative (API) to provide a coordinated response to the related threats to the integrity of the earth's atmosphere-global warming, ozone depletion, acid rain, and urban smog. This effort involves more than a dozen NRDC...
Page 114 - Solar Energy Panel of the National Science Foundation and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration...