Road from Kyoto: Hearing Before the Committee on Science, U.S. House of Representatives, One Hundred Fifth Congress, Second Session, Volume 4U.S. Government Printing Office, 1999 |
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... Ecosystems 113 113 116 117 118 121 125 133 136 139 143 144 149 150 162 163 177 180 204 Robert Constanza et al . , “ The value of the world's ecosystem services and natural capital , ” Nature 387 , May 15 , 1997 , pp . 253-260 205 213 ...
... Ecosystems 113 113 116 117 118 121 125 133 136 139 143 144 149 150 162 163 177 180 204 Robert Constanza et al . , “ The value of the world's ecosystem services and natural capital , ” Nature 387 , May 15 , 1997 , pp . 253-260 205 213 ...
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... ecosystems . The USGCRP addresses the broad suite of global change issues . The USGCRP has four priority areas : short term climate variability -- such as El Niño ; climate change over decades to centuries ; changes in atmospheric ...
... ecosystems . The USGCRP addresses the broad suite of global change issues . The USGCRP has four priority areas : short term climate variability -- such as El Niño ; climate change over decades to centuries ; changes in atmospheric ...
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... ecosystems may already be reacting to these changes . A paper published in the April 17 , 1997 issue of Nature presented compelling evidence for significant regional ecosystem response to warming experienced during the period 1981-1991 ...
... ecosystems may already be reacting to these changes . A paper published in the April 17 , 1997 issue of Nature presented compelling evidence for significant regional ecosystem response to warming experienced during the period 1981-1991 ...
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... ecosystem services suggest they could be in the trillions of dollars annually . For ecosystems , the rate of temperature change may be even more significant than its eventual magnitude . As the distinguished ecologist Professor Jane ...
... ecosystem services suggest they could be in the trillions of dollars annually . For ecosystems , the rate of temperature change may be even more significant than its eventual magnitude . As the distinguished ecologist Professor Jane ...
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... ecosystems , major economic system sectors , and its social infrastructure to climate variability and climate change ... Ecosystem effects include destruction of trees and caribou habitat ; clogging of salmon spawning streams ; reduction ...
... ecosystems , major economic system sectors , and its social infrastructure to climate variability and climate change ... Ecosystem effects include destruction of trees and caribou habitat ; clogging of salmon spawning streams ; reduction ...
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Page 186 - 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 1042 - Convention or to any protocol, except as may otherwise be provided in such protocol, shall be communicated to the Parties by the secretariat at least six months before the meeting at which it is proposed for adoption. The secretariat shall also communicate proposed amendments to the signatories to this Convention for information.
Page 1004 - 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 1014 - Develop, periodically update, publish and make available to the Conference of the Parties, in accordance with Article 12, national inventories of anthropogenic emissions by sources and removals by sinks of all greenhouse gases not controlled by the Montreal Protocol, using comparable methodologies to be agreed upon by the Conference of the Parties...
Page 1000 - Nations and the principles of international law, the sovereign right to exploit their own resources pursuant to their own environmental and developmental policies, and the responsibility to ensure that activities within their jurisdiction or control do not cause damage to the environment of other States or of areas beyond the limits of national jurisdiction...
Page 1042 - The annex shall enter into force for Parties which withdraw their notification of non-acceptance on the ninetieth day after the date on which withdrawal of such notification has been received by the Depositary.
Page 222 - In order to protect the environment, the precautionary approach shall be widely applied by States according to their capabilities. Where there are threats of serious or irreversible damage, lack of full scientific certainty shall not be used as a reason for postponing cost-effective measures to prevent environmental degradation.
Page 1031 - Provide new and additional financial resources to meet the agreed full costs...
Page 1000 - States have, in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations and the principles of international law, the sovereign right to exploit their own resources pursuant to their own environmental policies, and the responsibility to ensure that activities within their jurisdiction or control do not cause damage to the environment of other States or of areas beyond the limits of national jurisdiction.
Page 955 - ... the development and implementation of education and training programmes, including the strengthening of national institutions and the exchange or secondment of personnel to train...