Road from Kyoto: Hearing Before the Committee on Science, U.S. House of Representatives, One Hundred Fifth Congress, Second Session, Part 1U.S. Government Printing Office, 1999 |
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... performance criteria from the Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy for light - duty vehicles ' and from the efficiency case of the recent interlaboratory study ( the so - called “ Five Lab Study ...
... performance criteria from the Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy for light - duty vehicles ' and from the efficiency case of the recent interlaboratory study ( the so - called “ Five Lab Study ...
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... performance measures analyzed by the American Society for Public Administration . Energy is the fourth Federal ... performance measures -- " Comparing Outputs to Outcomes " ( October , 1996 ) and " Performance Measures and Organizational ...
... performance measures analyzed by the American Society for Public Administration . Energy is the fourth Federal ... performance measures -- " Comparing Outputs to Outcomes " ( October , 1996 ) and " Performance Measures and Organizational ...
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... performance of the acid rain market so far . Under the program , utilities have cut their sulfur dioxide emissions by approximately 35 % more than required - at least in part because the emissions trading market makes those extra ...
... performance of the acid rain market so far . Under the program , utilities have cut their sulfur dioxide emissions by approximately 35 % more than required - at least in part because the emissions trading market makes those extra ...
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... performance in meeting their emissions obligations would be durable with savings for early reductions and automatic debt carryover for any shortfalls . Performance would be evaluated for all GHG emissions by sources , 157.
... performance in meeting their emissions obligations would be durable with savings for early reductions and automatic debt carryover for any shortfalls . Performance would be evaluated for all GHG emissions by sources , 157.
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... performance . By the same token , the reporting system should also serve as the formal instrument for tracking , and therefore formally effecting , the exchange of emissions between sovereigns and each sovereign's " savings " and ...
... performance . By the same token , the reporting system should also serve as the formal instrument for tracking , and therefore formally effecting , the exchange of emissions between sovereigns and each sovereign's " savings " and ...
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Page 495 - Company's management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements based on our audit. We conducted our audit in accordance with generally accepted auditing standards. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements.
Page 1030 - States should cooperate to promote a supportive and open international economic system that would lead to economic growth and sustainable development in all countries, to better address the problems of environmental degradation.
Page 1030 - A national inventory of anthropogenic emissions by sources and removals by sinks of all greenhouse gases not controlled by the Montreal Protocol, to the extent its capacities permit, using comparable methodologies to be promoted and agreed upon by the Conference of the Parties...
Page 818 - 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 1037 - Extraordinary meetings of the Conference of the Parties shall be held at such other times as may be deemed necessary by the Conference, or...
Page 987 - Parties as an observer, may be so admitted unless at least one third of the Parties present object. The admission and participation of observers shall be subject to the rules of procedure adopted by the Conference of the Parties.
Page 1043 - A conciliation commission shall be created upon the request of one of the parties to the dispute. The commission shall...
Page 991 - In such cases, the organization and the member States shall not be entitled to exercise rights under the Convention concurrently. 3. In their instruments of ratification, acceptance, approval or accession...
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