Administration Views on Global Climate Change: 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, May 18, 1993, Volume 4U.S. Government Printing Office, 1993 - 35 pages |
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... Economic Policy, Trade, and Environment. ADMINISTRATION VIEWS ON GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE BRIATRA MOERON MO S STTIMMOO www MANGUD A KIMAIS aboavigans GOOD MALLOW HEARING MA WORE outhy E BEFORE THE ІМ STANFORD LIBRARIES P101-35 wM MAK esho ...
... Economic Policy, Trade, and Environment. ADMINISTRATION VIEWS ON GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE BRIATRA MOERON MO S STTIMMOO www MANGUD A KIMAIS aboavigans GOOD MALLOW HEARING MA WORE outhy E BEFORE THE ІМ STANFORD LIBRARIES P101-35 wM MAK esho ...
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... Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, First Session, May 18, 1993 United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Economic Policy, Trade, and Environment.
... Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, First Session, May 18, 1993 United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Economic Policy, Trade, and Environment.
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... Economic Policy, Trade, and Environment. ADMINISTRATION VIEWS ON GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE STANFORD LIBRARIES P101-35 HEARING BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON ECONOMIC POLICY , TRADE AND ENVIRONMENT OF THE COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN AFFAIRS HOUSE OF ...
... Economic Policy, Trade, and Environment. ADMINISTRATION VIEWS ON GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE STANFORD LIBRARIES P101-35 HEARING BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON ECONOMIC POLICY , TRADE AND ENVIRONMENT OF THE COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN AFFAIRS HOUSE OF ...
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... Economic Policy, Trade, and Environment. COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN AFFAIRS LEE H. HAMILTON , Indiana , Chairman MICHAEL H. VAN DUSEN , Chief of Staff RICHARD J. GARON , Minority Chief of Staff ANNE GREY , Staff Associate SUBCOMMITTEE ON ECONOMIC ...
... Economic Policy, Trade, and Environment. COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN AFFAIRS LEE H. HAMILTON , Indiana , Chairman MICHAEL H. VAN DUSEN , Chief of Staff RICHARD J. GARON , Minority Chief of Staff ANNE GREY , Staff Associate SUBCOMMITTEE ON ECONOMIC ...
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... Economic Policy, Trade, and Environment. CONTENTS WITNESSES Timothy E. Wirth , Counselor , Department of State APPENDIX Prepared statements : Hon . Sam Gejdenson , chairman , Subcommittee on Economic Policy , Trade and Environment ...
... Economic Policy, Trade, and Environment. CONTENTS WITNESSES Timothy E. Wirth , Counselor , Department of State APPENDIX Prepared statements : Hon . Sam Gejdenson , chairman , Subcommittee on Economic Policy , Trade and Environment ...
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Page 4 - 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...
Page 30 - 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 5 - We also must take the lead in addressing the challenge of global warming that could make our planet and its climate less hospitable and more hostile to human life. Today, I reaffirm my personal and announce our Nation's commitment to reducing our emissions of greenhouse gases to their 1990 levels by the year 2000. I am instructing my administration to produce a cost-effective plan by August that can continue the trend of reduced emission.
Page 30 - ... commit themselves specifically as provided for in the following: (a) Each of these Parties shall adopt national policies* and take corresponding measures on the mitigation of climate change, by limiting its anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases and protecting and enhancing its greenhouse gas sinks and reservoirs. These policies and measures will demonstrate that developed countries arc taking the lead in modifying longer-term trends in anthropogenic emissions consistent with the objective...
Page 5 - In order to promote progress to this end. each of these Parties shall communicate, within six months of the entry into force of the Convention for it and periodically thereafter, and in accordance with Article 12, detailed information on its policies and measures...
Page 31 - We must take the lead in addressing the challenge of global warming that could make our planet and its climate less hospitable and more hostile to human life. Today, I reaffirm my personal, and announce our Nation's commitment, to reducing our emissions of greenhouse gases to their 1990 levels by the year 2000. I am instructing my administration to produce a cost-effective plan by August that can continue the trend of reduced emissions. This must be a clarion call, not for more bureaucracy or regulation...
Page 30 - 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 would contribute to such modification, and taking into account the differences in these Parties...
Page 2 - Mr. Roth. Mr. ROTH. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I will try to be brief.
Page 27 - States to return to 1990 levels of greenhouse gas emissions by the year 2000. The plan provided no direction for American policy because it simply restated existing US efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The plan returned to the "hat and sunglasses...
Page 8 - ... environmental technologies, and theirs both for their own environmental concerns and for the concomitant requirement to continue along the path of environmentally sustainable economic growth.