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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... presents an important near - term benefit from actions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions that must be considered in addition to the long - term benefits of avoiding climatic disruptions . EPA's recently promulgated fine particulate ...
... presents an important near - term benefit from actions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions that must be considered in addition to the long - term benefits of avoiding climatic disruptions . EPA's recently promulgated fine particulate ...
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... presents a range of alternative cases that vary key assumptions concerning technology improvement and penetration . A high end - use technology case is defined by assuming that the cost of the most energy - efficient equipment and ...
... presents a range of alternative cases that vary key assumptions concerning technology improvement and penetration . A high end - use technology case is defined by assuming that the cost of the most energy - efficient equipment and ...
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... presents our preliminary analysis of the text of the Kyoto Protocol . The third , " More Clean Air for the Buck : Lessons from the U.S. Acid Rain Emissions Trading Program " , is a report EDF did last November on the U.S. experience to ...
... presents our preliminary analysis of the text of the Kyoto Protocol . The third , " More Clean Air for the Buck : Lessons from the U.S. Acid Rain Emissions Trading Program " , is a report EDF did last November on the U.S. experience to ...
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... Present Senior Attorney ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND , Washington , D.C. On behalf of a 300,000 member , scientific and policy research organization , developing market- based policy proposals for local , state , federal and international ...
... Present Senior Attorney ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND , Washington , D.C. On behalf of a 300,000 member , scientific and policy research organization , developing market- based policy proposals for local , state , federal and international ...
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... present form might be , it would produce little or no discernible environmental benefit , as the Chairman Emeritus of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change , Bert Bolin , pointed out again in an article in SCIENCE on January ...
... present form might be , it would produce little or no discernible environmental benefit , as the Chairman Emeritus of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change , Bert Bolin , pointed out again in an article in SCIENCE on January ...
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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...
Page 991 - For the purposes of paragraphs 1 and 2 above, any instrument deposited by a regional economic integration organization shall not be counted as additional to thos'e deposited by States members of the organization.
Page 992 - Convention, of which the Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish texts are equally authentic, shall be deposited with the Secretary-General of the United Nations, who shall send certified copies thereof to all signatory and acceding States.