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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... risks of rapid climate change ? Secondly , what are the implications of the remaining uncertainties , the nonlinearities in the climate system and the potential for surprises ? Third , do we have the op- portunity to buy any insurance ...
... risks of rapid climate change ? Secondly , what are the implications of the remaining uncertainties , the nonlinearities in the climate system and the potential for surprises ? Third , do we have the op- portunity to buy any insurance ...
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... risks of rapid climate change have received increasing attention among scientists , policymakers , responsible leaders in the business community , among members of the general public and nongovernmental organi- zations . Research on ...
... risks of rapid climate change have received increasing attention among scientists , policymakers , responsible leaders in the business community , among members of the general public and nongovernmental organi- zations . Research on ...
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... risk . They can choose to strengthen the family with a healthy diet , abstinence from smoking , avoiding drugs , foregoing excessive use of alcohol and getting regular exercise ; and to address the risks that cannot be avoided or ...
... risk . They can choose to strengthen the family with a healthy diet , abstinence from smoking , avoiding drugs , foregoing excessive use of alcohol and getting regular exercise ; and to address the risks that cannot be avoided or ...
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... risk . We can increase the resilience of American society against the kinds of weather events we have seen in the ... risks of rapid climate change . It ought well to be treated as an annex to a real National Action Plan , de- veloped ...
... risk . We can increase the resilience of American society against the kinds of weather events we have seen in the ... risks of rapid climate change . It ought well to be treated as an annex to a real National Action Plan , de- veloped ...
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... risk capital necessary to stimulate joint ventures between American companies and their Indian counterparts . Another important opportunity for promoting the goals of the Cli- mate Convention and of the President's economic plan lies in ...
... risk capital necessary to stimulate joint ventures between American companies and their Indian counterparts . Another important opportunity for promoting the goals of the Cli- mate Convention and of the President's economic plan lies in ...
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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...