Implementation of Environmental Treaties: Joint Hearing Before the Committee on Environment and Public Works, United States Senate and Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, One Hundred Seventh Congress, Second Session on July 24, 2002 |
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Page 2 - It is the continuing policy of the Federal Government to use all practicable means and measures to create and maintain conditions under which man and nature can exist in productive harmony and fulfill the social, economic, and other requirements of present and future generations of Americans.
Page 101 - it is the continuing policy of the Federal Government. . . to use all practicable means and measures ... to create and maintain conditions under which man and nature can exist in productive harmony, and fulfill the social, economic, and other requirements of present and future generations of Americans.
Page 81 - Parties should take precautionary measures to anticipate, prevent, or minimize the causes of climate change and mitigate its adverse effects where there are threats of serious or irreversible damage. Lack of full scientific certainty should not be used as a reason for postponing such measures.
Page 325 - reservation" as: "a unilateral statement, however phrased or named, made by a State, when signing, ratifying, accepting, approving or acceding to a treaty, whereby it purports to exclude or to modify the legal effect of certain provisions of the treaty in their application to that State".
Page 105 - 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 105 - The ultimate objective of the Convention is to achieve stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic [human-induced] interference with the climate system.
Page 299 - should be achieved within a timeframe 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 318 - Internal law and observance of treaties: A party may not invoke the provisions of its internal law as justification for its failure to perform a treaty. This rule is without prejudice to article 46.
Page 337 - A State is obliged to refrain from acts which would defeat the object and purpose of a treaty when (a) it has signed the treaty or has exchanged instruments constituting the treaty subject to ratification, acceptance or approval . . .
Page 358 - stabilization of [GHG] concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system." However, the US actions described above, including repudiation