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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... learned from that plan and hope to con- structively build upon it . Here are a few examples . The first draft extensively discussed our national circumstances but didn't set forth how we can best tai- lor our actions to reduce emissions ...
... learned from that plan and hope to con- structively build upon it . Here are a few examples . The first draft extensively discussed our national circumstances but didn't set forth how we can best tai- lor our actions to reduce emissions ...
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... learned again , Mr. Chairman , from the comment section when the Bush plan was submitted late in 1992. It was out , as you know , for public comment , and much of what we have learned is public comment on that as well as our own ...
... learned again , Mr. Chairman , from the comment section when the Bush plan was submitted late in 1992. It was out , as you know , for public comment , and much of what we have learned is public comment on that as well as our own ...
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... learned about the science of food supplies and the integrity of our reserves and the need for reserves at a time when we are going to have weather crises , we have ahead of us very , very , very significant problems . Mr. ROTH . Do you ...
... learned about the science of food supplies and the integrity of our reserves and the need for reserves at a time when we are going to have weather crises , we have ahead of us very , very , very significant problems . Mr. ROTH . Do you ...
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... learned , as I suggested earlier , from the National Action Plan set up by the previous administration , what was good about that , what wasn't good about that . There were scores of public comments that came in on that proc- ess . We ...
... learned , as I suggested earlier , from the National Action Plan set up by the previous administration , what was good about that , what wasn't good about that . There were scores of public comments that came in on that proc- ess . We ...
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... learned a lot about that and much less of that is going on . Mr. ROTH . I appreciate President Bush doing that . I yield . Mr. GEJDENSON . It is important to note that we have worked on debt - for - nature swaps , and we are currently ...
... learned a lot about that and much less of that is going on . Mr. ROTH . I appreciate President Bush doing that . I yield . Mr. GEJDENSON . It is important to note that we have worked on debt - for - nature swaps , and we are currently ...
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Page 29 - 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 31 - 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 . . . that can continue the trend of reduced emissions. This must be a clarion call...
Page 4 - 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.
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 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 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 5 - This must be a clarion call, not for more bureaucracy or regulation or unnecessary costs, but, instead, for American ingenuity and creativity, to produce the best and most energy-efficient technology.
Page 31 - The Administration is committed to see-ing the Convention promptly implemented, and, if necessary, strengthened. To this end, the Administration is taking a two-pronged approach: a domestic effort to reduce emissions and enhance sinks of greenhouse gases; and an international effort, including working to implement the convention, and to support developing countries, and countries moving toward free market economies, in meeting its goals.
Page 9 - Investment in environmental technology is one way to reach this goal, and we must poise our industrial sector for a leadership role in a future international economy that will reflect our global environmental imperatives. As President Clinton noted in his Earth Day speech, there will be, by the end of this decade, a $300 billion market for environmental technologies, and the United States must capture as much of that market — and the tens of thousands of jobs it will create — as possible. This...