Road from Kyoto: Hearing Before the Committee on Science, U.S. House of Representatives, One Hundred Fifth Congress, Second Session, Part 3U.S. Government Printing Office, 1999 |
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... Pollutants 122 Opportunity for Congressional and Public Review of U.S. Positions for Upcoming Bonn and Buenos Aires Meetings New U.S. Requirements Imposed by Articles 10 and 11 of the Kyoto Protocol 123 124 Clarification of the ...
... Pollutants 122 Opportunity for Congressional and Public Review of U.S. Positions for Upcoming Bonn and Buenos Aires Meetings New U.S. Requirements Imposed by Articles 10 and 11 of the Kyoto Protocol 123 124 Clarification of the ...
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... pollutants in the air with health costs ; which would lead to a drying of soil and potential damage to our agriculture ; which would lead to a planet that is subject to much more erratic and dangerous weather patterns , and which will ...
... pollutants in the air with health costs ; which would lead to a drying of soil and potential damage to our agriculture ; which would lead to a planet that is subject to much more erratic and dangerous weather patterns , and which will ...
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... pollutants - I'm not really sure if CO2 is a pollut- ant - but producing other pollutants which could either warm or cool our globe depending upon whether they let in more or less en- ergy from the sun and whether they reflected more or ...
... pollutants - I'm not really sure if CO2 is a pollut- ant - but producing other pollutants which could either warm or cool our globe depending upon whether they let in more or less en- ergy from the sun and whether they reflected more or ...
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... pollutants - you'd have less pol- lutants , less asthma , less problems of a health kind . Also , even excluding cost mitigating factors like Sinks and the President's electricity restructuring program she estimates would reach roughly ...
... pollutants - you'd have less pol- lutants , less asthma , less problems of a health kind . Also , even excluding cost mitigating factors like Sinks and the President's electricity restructuring program she estimates would reach roughly ...
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... pollutants . Diseases that thrive in warmer climates , like malaria and yellow fever , would increase . It's been estimated by scientists , by the end of the next century , that there will be an additional 50 to 80 million cases of ...
... pollutants . Diseases that thrive in warmer climates , like malaria and yellow fever , would increase . It's been estimated by scientists , by the end of the next century , that there will be an additional 50 to 80 million cases of ...
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Page 750 - A State is obliged to refrain from acts which would defeat the object and purpose of a treaty...
Page 630 - States should cooperate to promote a supportive and open international economic system that would lead to economic growth and sustainable development in all countries, to better address the problems of environmental degradation.
Page 141 - 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 646 - AUTHENTIC TEXTS The original of this Convention, of which the Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish texts are equally authentic, shall be deposited with the Secretary-General of the United Nations.
Page 405 - Forest land: Land at least 10 percent occupied by forest trees of any size or formerly having had such tree cover and not currently developed for nonforest use. Lands developed for nonforest use...
Page 646 - ... 2. For each State or regional economic integration organization that ratifies, accepts or approves the Convention or accedes thereto after the deposit of the fiftieth instrument of ratification, acceptance, approval or accession...
Page 126 - A State may, when signing, ratifying, accepting, approving or acceding to a treaty, formulate a reservation unless : (a) the reservation is prohibited by the treaty; (b) the treaty provides that only specified reservations, which do not include the reservation in question, may be made; or (c) in cases not falling under sub-paragraphs (a) and (b), the reservation is incompatible with the object and purpose of the treaty.
Page 588 - 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 634 - Parties with economies that are highly dependent on income generated from the production, processing and export, and/or consumption of fossil fuels and associated energy-intensive products and/or the use of fossil fuels for which such Parties have serious difficulties in switching to alternatives.
Page 17 - ... the balance of evidence suggests that there is a discernible human influence on global climate.