National Action Plan for Global Climate ChangeBureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs, Office of Global Change, 1992 - 129 pages |
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Page 10 - 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 9 - 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 8 - A national inventory of anthropogenic emissions by sources and removals by sinks of all greenhouse gases not controlled by the Montreal Protocol, to the extent its capacities permit, using comparable methodologies to be promoted and agreed upon by the Conference of the Parties...
Page 8 - Take climate change considerations into account, to the extent feasible, in their relevant social, economic, and environmental policies and actions...
Page 9 - I shall make its initial communication within six months of the entry into force of the Convention for that Party.
Page 10 - The ultimate objective of the Convention is to achieve the 'stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate...
Page 9 - ... economic information. Based on this review, the Conference of the Parties shall take appropriate action, which may include the adoption of amendments to the commitments in subparagraphs (a) and (b) above. The Conference of the Parties, at its first session, shall also take decisions regarding criteria for joint implementation as indicated in subparagraph (a) above. A second review of subparagraphs (a) and (b) shall take place not later than 31 December 1998, and thereafter at regular intervals...
Page 9 - 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 8 - 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 9 - ... above, a certain degree of flexibility shall be allowed by the Conference of the Parties to the Parties included in annex I undergoing the process of transition to a market economy, in order to enhance the ability of these Parties to address climate change, including with regard to the historical level of anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases not controlled by the Montreal Protocol chosen as a reference.
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| Title | National Action Plan for Global Climate Change Volume 10026 of Department of State publication |
| Author | United States. Department of State. Office of Global Change |
| Editor | Department of state publication, bureau of oceans and international environmental and scientific affairs, office of global change |
| Contributor | United States. Department of State. Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs, Office of Global Change, 1992 |
| Original from | the University of Virginia |
| Digitized | 3 Jan 2008 |
| ISBN | 016038270X, 9780160382703 |
| Length | 129 pages |
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