Administration Views on Global Climate Change: 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, May 18, 1993, Volume 4U.S. Government Printing Office, 1993 - 35 pages |
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... taxes on energy by our closest competitors . Mr. WIRTH . First , the answer is yes , we do know that the pas- sage of the Btu tax will be helpful just as a number of other meas- ures that we have or will take in the country have been ...
... taxes on energy by our closest competitors . Mr. WIRTH . First , the answer is yes , we do know that the pas- sage of the Btu tax will be helpful just as a number of other meas- ures that we have or will take in the country have been ...
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... Btu tax ? Mr. WIRTH . There has been a proposal of a Btu tax which moves across all sectors of the economy and all parts of the country , and we believe is the fairest way in which to approach greater equities in the energy costs . Mr ...
... Btu tax ? Mr. WIRTH . There has been a proposal of a Btu tax which moves across all sectors of the economy and all parts of the country , and we believe is the fairest way in which to approach greater equities in the energy costs . Mr ...
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... taxes . Mr. WIRTH . Let me also suggest , as I did before , that the purpose of the Btu tax is focused on the economy and on this enormous def- icit that we are living with , which ran , as you know , well out of control for the last ...
... taxes . Mr. WIRTH . Let me also suggest , as I did before , that the purpose of the Btu tax is focused on the economy and on this enormous def- icit that we are living with , which ran , as you know , well out of control for the last ...
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... Btu tax , when we increase the efficiency of his automobile by 15 percent , any increase in the cost per gallon of gasoline is more than compensated for . When I had my first car in 1966 I paid 35 cents per gallon of gasoline , but got ...
... Btu tax , when we increase the efficiency of his automobile by 15 percent , any increase in the cost per gallon of gasoline is more than compensated for . When I had my first car in 1966 I paid 35 cents per gallon of gasoline , but got ...
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Page 29 - 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 30 - 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 30 - Parties shall adopt national' policies and take corresponding measures on the mitigation of climate change, by limiting its anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases and protecting and enhancing its greenhouse gas sinks and reservoirs.
Page 5 - We also must take the lead in addressing the challenge of global warming that could make our planet and its climate less hospitable and more hostile to human life. Today, I reaffirm my personal and announce our Nation's commitment to reducing our emissions of greenhouse gases to their 1990 levels by the year 2000. I am instructing my administration to produce a cost-effective plan by August that can continue the trend of reduced emission.
Page 30 - In order to promote progress to this end. each of these Parties shall communicate, within six months of the entry into force of the Convention for it and periodically thereafter, and in accordance with Article 12, detailed information on its policies and measures...
Page 31 - I reaffirm my personal, and announce our nation 's commitment to reducing our emissions of greenhouse gases to their 1990 levels by the year 2000. I am instructing my administration to produce a cost-effective plan . . . that can continue the trend of reduced emissions. This must be a clarion call...
Page 30 - 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 would contribute to such modification, and taking into account the differences in these Parties...
Page 31 - We must take the lead in addressing the challenge of global warming that could make our planet and its climate less hospitable and more hostile to human life. Today, I reaffirm my personal, and announce our Nation's commitment, to reducing our emissions of greenhouse gases to their 1990 levels by the year 2000. I am instructing my administration to produce a cost-effective plan by August that can continue the trend of reduced emissions. This must be a clarion call, not for more bureaucracy or regulation...
Page 4 - The ultimate objective of this Convention and any related legal instruments that the Conference of the Parties may adopt is to achieve, in accordance with the relevant provisions of the Convention, stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system...
Page 2 - Mr. Roth. Mr. ROTH. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I will try to be brief.