Global Climate Change and Stratospheric Ozone Depletion: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Environmental Protection of the Committee on Environment and Public Works, United States Senate, One Hundred Second Congress, First Session, July 30, 1991

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Page 61 - The Parties should take precautionary measures to anticipate, prevent or minimize the causes of climate change and mitigate its adverse effects, where there are threats of serious or irreversible damage, lack of full scientific certainty should not be used as a reason for postponing such measures...
Page 55 - Determined to protect the ozone layer by taking precautionary measures to control equitably total global emissions of substances that deplete it, with the ultimate objective of their elimination on the basis of developments in scientific knowledge, taking into account technical and economic considerations and bearing in mind the developmental needs of developing countries...
Page 45 - Parties simply instructed the protocol's assessment panels to look at "the possibilities and difficulties of an earlier phaseout of the controlled substances, for example the implications of a 1997 phaseout." They also asked the panels to identify the areas where HCFCs are / the only suitable alternative, estimate the quantity of HCFCs that will be needed, and suggest a possible date for an HCFC phaseout. Since the Nairobi meeting, the protocol's Scientific Assessment Panel, including 80 of the world's...
Page 25 - A) emissions of greenhouse gases, a rate of increase of global mean temperature during the next century of about 0.3°C per decade (with an uncertainty range of 0.2°C to 0.5°C per decade); this is greater than that seen over the past 10, 000 years.
Page 25 - ... temperature during the next century of about 0.3°C per decade (with an uncertainty range of 0.2°C to 0.5°C per decade) this is greater than that seen over the past 10,000 years. This will result in a likely increase in global mean temperature of about 1 °C above the present value by 2025 and 3°C before the end of the next century.
Page 48 - CFC tax is one of the most powerful tools Congress has created to protect the ozone layer. This economic instrument has successfully encouraged industry to adopt alternatives to CFCs and increase CFC recycling. In the short period since the tax took effect in 1990, US CFC production has dropped significantly. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, domestic CFC production is now 42 percent below the limit allowed by the Montreal Protocol, the international ozone protection agreement.
Page 43 - He are the US affiliate of Friends of the Earth International, a worldwide environmental network with member organizations in 38 countries. We greatly appreciate your invitation to appear here today to share our views on HR 2699, "The Stratospheric Ozone Protection Act of 1989.
Page 48 - Raise the tax's base rate. The current base tax rate per pound of chemical is $1.67 in 1992 and will rise to $2.65 in 1993 and $3.10 in 1995. (The total tax per chemical equals the base rate multiplied by the chemical's ozone depletion potential (ODP).) We propose raising the base rate to $2.00 in 1992, $4.00 in 1994 and $5.00 in 1995. This approach would make it more expensive for industry to delay eliminating CFC use. 2. Add HCFCs to the list of taxed chemicals. HCFCs are ozone -destroying chemicals...
Page 60 - ... the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC) for a Framework Convention on Climate Change.

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