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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... join you in welcoming our witnesses today . Few environmental issues generate more widely diverse views than global warming . Some believe we are on the road to inevitable catastrophe . Others deny it is happening at all . 2 WITNESSES.
... join you in welcoming our witnesses today . Few environmental issues generate more widely diverse views than global warming . Some believe we are on the road to inevitable catastrophe . Others deny it is happening at all . 2 WITNESSES.
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... issue that has been in the public eye for several years now , and the pol- icy implications for action to control global warming are far - reach- ing , including areas of the business community . But there is a real simple answer to ...
... issue that has been in the public eye for several years now , and the pol- icy implications for action to control global warming are far - reach- ing , including areas of the business community . But there is a real simple answer to ...
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... issues . WWF is the U.S. affiliate of the international WWF family , which is the world's largest private conservation organization . We have over 1.2 million members here in the United States and over 4 million members worldwide . We ...
... issues . WWF is the U.S. affiliate of the international WWF family , which is the world's largest private conservation organization . We have over 1.2 million members here in the United States and over 4 million members worldwide . We ...
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... issue . Just briefly , let me give you a little background on the Business Council . It is a fairly new organization ; we were formed late last year . We are made up of business leaders from the energy effi- ciency , renewable , natural ...
... issue . Just briefly , let me give you a little background on the Business Council . It is a fairly new organization ; we were formed late last year . We are made up of business leaders from the energy effi- ciency , renewable , natural ...
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... issue . Fifth , the Business Council recognizes that increased energy effi- ciency will be the foundation for a sustainable energy future . The current version of the National Action Plan recognizes the impor- tance of energy efficiency ...
... issue . Fifth , the Business Council recognizes that increased energy effi- ciency will be the foundation for a sustainable energy future . The current version of the National Action Plan recognizes the impor- tance of energy efficiency ...
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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...