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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... increasing atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases , carbon dioxide , methane , and nitrous oxide . While there are uncertainties about the magnitude , timing , and regional patterns of greenhouse gas concentrations , there is ...
... increasing atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases , carbon dioxide , methane , and nitrous oxide . While there are uncertainties about the magnitude , timing , and regional patterns of greenhouse gas concentrations , there is ...
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... increasing share of the total emis- sions ; about 40 percent today and perhaps rising to 60 percent by the year 2030 . To make a significant contribution to protecting the climate , the United States must first demonstrate its own ...
... increasing share of the total emis- sions ; about 40 percent today and perhaps rising to 60 percent by the year 2030 . To make a significant contribution to protecting the climate , the United States must first demonstrate its own ...
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... increased . And knowing everything that we know now , that it , therefore , follows that the chances are very good that the atmosphere is going to warm significantly . And , therefore , what we ought to be doing now is intervening at a ...
... increased . And knowing everything that we know now , that it , therefore , follows that the chances are very good that the atmosphere is going to warm significantly . And , therefore , what we ought to be doing now is intervening at a ...
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... increase our in- vestment domestically in more energy - efficient technologies , the manufacturing base in Ohio is probably 50 percent more energy ef- ficient than it was in 1953. We have a long way to go . We are half as energy ...
... increase our in- vestment domestically in more energy - efficient technologies , the manufacturing base in Ohio is probably 50 percent more energy ef- ficient than it was in 1953. We have a long way to go . We are half as energy ...
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... increase the way in which they use their own energy , that means that there are dollars left over to re- invest in those very energy efficiencies . We see that in Russia right now working with Russian industry on natural gas and natural ...
... increase the way in which they use their own energy , that means that there are dollars left over to re- invest in those very energy efficiencies . We see that in Russia right now working with Russian industry on natural gas and natural ...
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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.