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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... significant uncertainties about global warming remain , it is clear that we can only ensure that this objective is achieved if the United States and other industrialized countries move rapidly to cap emissions at 1990 levels by the year ...
... significant uncertainties about global warming remain , it is clear that we can only ensure that this objective is achieved if the United States and other industrialized countries move rapidly to cap emissions at 1990 levels by the year ...
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... significant emission reductions . The importance of timing cannot be overstressed , however . Much valuable time has already been lost since the 1988 Toronto Con- ference first called for a 20 percent reduction in emissions . The turn ...
... significant emission reductions . The importance of timing cannot be overstressed , however . Much valuable time has already been lost since the 1988 Toronto Con- ference first called for a 20 percent reduction in emissions . The turn ...
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... significant impact on greenhouse gas emissions in the years and decades ahead . There are notably 14 titles of the national Energy Policy Act that relate to global climate change , 11 of them identi- fied in the Action Plan . The Action ...
... significant impact on greenhouse gas emissions in the years and decades ahead . There are notably 14 titles of the national Energy Policy Act that relate to global climate change , 11 of them identi- fied in the Action Plan . The Action ...
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... significant environmental benefits due to U.S. indus- try involvement in the efforts of developing countries to constrain the growth of their greenhouse gas emissions . Finally , impacts on international competitiveness must be consid ...
... significant environmental benefits due to U.S. indus- try involvement in the efforts of developing countries to constrain the growth of their greenhouse gas emissions . Finally , impacts on international competitiveness must be consid ...
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... significantly to the pressures on human societies and natu- ral ecosystems that are likely to be under severe stress from other factors in the decades to come . No one can say with certainty that any of the specific weather anomalies we ...
... significantly to the pressures on human societies and natu- ral ecosystems that are likely to be under severe stress from other factors in the decades to come . No one can say with certainty that any of the specific weather anomalies we ...
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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...