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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... produce milk ; and that is the way it is with regulations . Let's re- member , no country has done more on the environment than the United States . As our witnesses testify today , I hope they will ad- dress the danger of stalling our ...
... produce milk ; and that is the way it is with regulations . Let's re- member , no country has done more on the environment than the United States . As our witnesses testify today , I hope they will ad- dress the danger of stalling our ...
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... produce an acceptable plan to deal with the problem of global warming . But before turning to that , let me say a few words about the scientific basis for taking action on global warming . My written statement quotes at length from a ...
... produce an acceptable plan to deal with the problem of global warming . But before turning to that , let me say a few words about the scientific basis for taking action on global warming . My written statement quotes at length from a ...
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... produce mistaken results . It is critical we think , that the energy molecules be traced from the mine mouth to the point of consumption and that emissions also be counted from beginning to end . And finally , we think that the Action ...
... produce mistaken results . It is critical we think , that the energy molecules be traced from the mine mouth to the point of consumption and that emissions also be counted from beginning to end . And finally , we think that the Action ...
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... produced models that are both complex , sophisticated and computationally intensive . Running on the largest supercomputers currently available , they give us a good idea of the main outlines of global climate change that could occur if ...
... produced models that are both complex , sophisticated and computationally intensive . Running on the largest supercomputers currently available , they give us a good idea of the main outlines of global climate change that could occur if ...
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... produced . It is likely at continued rates of emissions , even if we stabilized emissions at the 1990 levels , the concentration of these gases also continue to rise and the risks of rapid climate change will thus continue to grow . But ...
... produced . It is likely at continued rates of emissions , even if we stabilized emissions at the 1990 levels , the concentration of these gases also continue to rise and the risks of rapid climate change will thus continue to grow . But ...
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Page 44 - 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. Such a level should be achieved within a...
Page 67 - 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 67 - 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 67 - 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 45 - I shall incorporate in its annual inventory of anthropogenic emissions by sources and removals by sinks of greenhouse gases not controlled by the Montreal Protocol, submitted in accordance with the relevant decisions of the Conference of the Parties...
Page 55 - Promote and cooperate in the development, application and diffusion, including transfer, of technologies, practices and processes...
Page 44 - ... 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 43 - 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 6 - 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...
Page 45 - 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 CO , 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 CO, from the energy sector. Reducing energy-related CO, emissions from industrialized countries is the most important action needed...