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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... energy tax rates , if emissions are higher than anticipated . The most recent DOE / EIA reference case projection indicates that carbon dioxide emissions will increase by some 160 million metric tons of carbon by the year 2000 relative to ...
... energy tax rates , if emissions are higher than anticipated . The most recent DOE / EIA reference case projection indicates that carbon dioxide emissions will increase by some 160 million metric tons of carbon by the year 2000 relative to ...
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... indicate that we are likely to face thresholds of nonlinearity in the response of these systems , situations in which a small addi- tional increment may provoke a much - larger - than - expected re- sponse in return . But what can we do ...
... indicate that we are likely to face thresholds of nonlinearity in the response of these systems , situations in which a small addi- tional increment may provoke a much - larger - than - expected re- sponse in return . But what can we do ...
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... indicated , was that we do the accounting on the basis of the fuel , fuel cycle and we are honest about where we put in money and where we put in sub- sidize . We shouldn't subsidize renewals any more than we have currently subsidized ...
... indicated , was that we do the accounting on the basis of the fuel , fuel cycle and we are honest about where we put in money and where we put in sub- sidize . We shouldn't subsidize renewals any more than we have currently subsidized ...
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... indicate that it takes a very slight change in temperature to affect the Midwest agricultural region very severely , and so I am glad you clarified that . We certainly don't want that to happen , be- cause when you were describing this ...
... indicate that it takes a very slight change in temperature to affect the Midwest agricultural region very severely , and so I am glad you clarified that . We certainly don't want that to happen , be- cause when you were describing this ...
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... indicated their intentions , but none , to the best of my knowledge , have yet put forward , despite the Prompt Start Resolution calling for them to do it , specific detailed plans for how they would get there , and the EC , for example ...
... indicated their intentions , but none , to the best of my knowledge , have yet put forward , despite the Prompt Start Resolution calling for them to do it , specific detailed plans for how they would get there , and the EC , for example ...
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Page 7 - Convention, stabilisation 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...
Page 18 - Promote and cooperate in the development, application and diffusion, including transfer, of technologies, practices and processes...
Page 30 - 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 30 - 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 6 - Thank you Mr. Chairman and members of the Committee. I am Daniel Lashof, a senior scientist with the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). Previously I was an Environmental Scientist at the Environmental Protection Agency, where I was the lead author of the Draft Report to Congress Policy Options for Stabilizing Global Climate.
Page 7 - The Conference of the Parties, as the supreme body of this Convention, shall keep under regular review the implementation of the Convention and any related legal instruments that the Conference of the Parties may adopt, and shall make, within its mandate, the decisions necessary to promote the effective implementation of the Convention.
Page 7 - Simpler models, which simulate the behaviour of GCMs. are also used to make predictions of the evolution with time of global temperature from a number of emission scenarios. These so-called box-diffusion models contain highly simplified physics but give similar results to GCMs when globally averaged.
Page 8 - Based on feasible limits for the concentrations of greenhouse gases other than CO2 1 calculate that this target requires holding CO2 concentrations to about 400 ppm. Immediate action to reduce CO2 emissions is essential if this limit is not to be exceeded. Industrialized countries, with 25% of the world's population, are responsible for 75% of current global emissions of CO2 from the energy sector. Reducing energy-related CO, emissions from industrialized countries is the most important action needed...
Page 6 - 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 scientists, resource specialists, and attorneys expert in climate, energy efficiency, nuclear energy, forestry, agriculture,...