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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... period , rather than a single year . According to the state department , allowing emissions to be averaged across a budget period increases flexibility by helping to smooth out short term fluctuations in economic performance ...
... period , rather than a single year . According to the state department , allowing emissions to be averaged across a budget period increases flexibility by helping to smooth out short term fluctuations in economic performance ...
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... period of time . That's our budgeting idea that we se- cured in the Kyoto agreement . And finally , in terms of " when " flexibility , we secured the idea of banking . If you can achieve more reductions in this period than in other periods ...
... period of time . That's our budgeting idea that we se- cured in the Kyoto agreement . And finally , in terms of " when " flexibility , we secured the idea of banking . If you can achieve more reductions in this period than in other periods ...
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... periods spanning five years : The U.S. proposal for a five - year budget period was adopted rather than the single - year target proposed by others . Allowing nations to average over five years increases flexibility and lowers costs by ...
... periods spanning five years : The U.S. proposal for a five - year budget period was adopted rather than the single - year target proposed by others . Allowing nations to average over five years increases flexibility and lowers costs by ...
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... period . Total coal consumption increases by 15 percent between 1996 and 2010 , primarily due to its use for generation . Petroleum continues to have the largest share of energy consumption and is projected to increase by 23 percent ...
... period . Total coal consumption increases by 15 percent between 1996 and 2010 , primarily due to its use for generation . Petroleum continues to have the largest share of energy consumption and is projected to increase by 23 percent ...
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... period . The projected decline in energy intensity is significant but considerably less than the decline in the 1970s and early 1980s , which averaged 2.3 percent a year between 1970 and 1986. Approximately half the decline in energy ...
... period . The projected decline in energy intensity is significant but considerably less than the decline in the 1970s and early 1980s , which averaged 2.3 percent a year between 1970 and 1986. Approximately half the decline in energy ...
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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...
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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...
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