Evaluating Climate Chanage Action Plans

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. The International Negotiating Committee Process

   • Oscar Avalle

   Pages 1-3

3. The United States Perspective

   • Daniel Reifsnyder

   Pages 5-8

4. Session I Discussion with Oscar Avalle and Daniel Reifsnyder

   • James C. White, Wendy H. Petry, William R. Wagner

   Pages 9-16

5. Scientific Status Report

   • Robert Watson

   Pages 17-28

6. Discussion with Robert Watson

   • James C. White, Wendy H. Petry, William R. Wagner

   Pages 29-33

7. The United States Action Plan

   • Karl Hausker

   Pages 35-39

8. Luncheon Discussion with Karl Hausker

   • James C. White, Wendy H. Petry, William R. Wagner

   Pages 41-42

9. Perspectives on the U.S. Climate Action Plan

   • David C. Rinebolt

   Pages 43-47

10. The Environmental Perspective

    • Daniel Lashof

    Pages 49-54

11. Industry/Business Perspectives

    • John Hemphill

    Pages 55-58

12. Business\Industry Perspectives

    • Robert Beck

    Pages 59-62

13. Session II Discussion with Robert Beck, John Hemphill, Daniel Lashof, and David Rinebolt

    • James C. White, Wendy H. Petry, William R. Wagner

    Pages 63-70

14. Critique Of Session II

    • Elizabeth Cook

    Pages 71-74

15. Critique of Session II

    • David Montgomery

    Pages 75-88

16. Discussion with Elizabeth Cook and David Montgomery

    • James C. White, Wendy H. Petry, William R. Wagner

    Pages 89-95

17. Electric Power Supply Alternatives

    • Charles Siebenthal

    Pages 97-110

18. Session III Discussion with Charles Siebenthal

    • James C. White, Wendy H. Petry, William R. Wagner

    Pages 111-112

19. Industrial Demand

    • Pam Herman

    Pages 113-117

20. Electric Utilities

    • Dirk Forrister

    Pages 119-122

The atmospheric scientists of the world are in general agreement that the threat of climate change is real, inevitable, and serious. The accumulation of greenhouse gases, principally CO from burning fossil fuels, is the main cause. 2 At the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro, 166 nations signed the Framework Convention on Climate Change and agreed to draw up plans to contain greenhouse gases at 1990 levels. Never in world history had so many nations agreed on anything. . Developing these plans has not been easy and no two countries have had the same circumstances and conditions to meet. Countries have not approached their problems in the same manner and many nations find the task almost impossible to solve under the ground rules set up in Rio. This volume contains the papers presented at a meeting organized by the Center for Environmental Information and held in Washington, D.C., November 30 to December 2, 1994. The principal aim of the meeting was to evaluate the U.S. and other national climate action plans which had been released a few weeks before. Specifically, these papers concentrate on an overview of the U.S. plan; the perspec­ tives of business, industry, electric utilities, and environmental organizations; mitigation actions in various plans; integrated assessment; an overview of plans from various nations; and the need to amend the convention. The meeting was sponsored and cosponsored by 35 governmental agencies, environ­ mental groups, industrial organizations, and educational institutions.

• Greenhouse gas
• climate
• climate change
• energy
• environment
• policy
• ecotoxicology

• Cornell University, Ithaca, USA

  James C. White

• Center for Environmental Information, Rochester, USA

  Wendy H. Petry, William R. Wagner

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