Road from Kyoto: Kyoto and the administration's fiscal year 1999 budget requestU.S. Government Printing Office, 1999 |
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... lead to flooding , soil erosion , and even loss of life . We know only too well how costly weather disasters can be . Since 1980 we have had 30 weather or climate events with price tags of at least $ 1 billion . Nineteen of the events ...
... lead to flooding , soil erosion , and even loss of life . We know only too well how costly weather disasters can be . Since 1980 we have had 30 weather or climate events with price tags of at least $ 1 billion . Nineteen of the events ...
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... lead to the disappearance of most discontinuous permafrost over the next 100 years . In many places , ground level can collapse 5 yards or more , leading to significant damages to ecosystems and human infrastructure . Houses , roads ...
... lead to the disappearance of most discontinuous permafrost over the next 100 years . In many places , ground level can collapse 5 yards or more , leading to significant damages to ecosystems and human infrastructure . Houses , roads ...
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... lead to reduction in biological diversity and in the goods and services ecosystems provide for society , such as clean water and recreation . Freshwater wetlands are particularly at risk from climate change . IPCC findings show that ...
... lead to reduction in biological diversity and in the goods and services ecosystems provide for society , such as clean water and recreation . Freshwater wetlands are particularly at risk from climate change . IPCC findings show that ...
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United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science. to lead to increased crop yields in many areas , but decreased yields in others , even for the same crop . The magnitude of these changes can exceed +/- 30 or 40 percent for some ...
United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science. to lead to increased crop yields in many areas , but decreased yields in others , even for the same crop . The magnitude of these changes can exceed +/- 30 or 40 percent for some ...
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... lead times of predictions of seasonal climate fluctuations associated with the El Niño - Southern Oscillation , with several forecasting activities successfully predicted the onset of the 1997-98 El Niño event early enough to support ...
... lead times of predictions of seasonal climate fluctuations associated with the El Niño - Southern Oscillation , with several forecasting activities successfully predicted the onset of the 1997-98 El Niño event early enough to support ...
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Page 208 - 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 208 - 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 931 - The text of any proposed amendment to this 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.
Page 920 - The Parties included in Annex I shall, individually or jointly, ensure that their aggregate anthropogenic carbon dioxide equivalent emissions of the greenhouse gases listed in Annex A do not exceed their assigned amounts, calculated pursuant to their quantified emission limitation and reduction commitments inscribed in Annex...
Page 930 - Parties as an observer, may be so admitted unless at least one third of the Parties present object. The admission and participation of observers shall be subject to the rules of procedure adopted by the Conference of the Parties.
Page 933 - Protocol shall be open for accession from the day after the date on which it is closed for signature. Instruments of ratification, acceptance, approval or accession shall be deposited with the Depositary.
Page 932 - Convention 1 . Any Party may propose amendments to the Convention. 2. Amendments to the Convention shall be adopted at an ordinary session of the Conference of the Parties. The text of any proposed amendment...
Page 932 - Parties present and voting at the meeting. The adopted amendment shall be communicated by the secretariat to the Depositary, who shall circulate it to all Parties for their acceptance. 4. Instruments of acceptance in respect of an amendment shall be deposited with the Depositary. An amendment adopted in accordance with paragraph 3 above shall enter into force for those Parties having accepted it on the ninetieth day after the date of receipt by the Depositary of an instrument of acceptance by at...
Page 924 - 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 913 - The Conference of the Parties shall define the relevant principles, modalities, rules and guidelines, in particular for verification, reporting and accountability for emissions trading. The Parties included in annex B may participate in emissions trading for the purposes of fulfilling their commitments under article 3. Any such trading shall be supplemental to domestic actions for the purpose of meeting quantified emission limitation and reduction commitments...