A Regime to Control Greenhouse Gases: Issues of Verification, Monitoring, Institutions: proceedings of a workshop Bad Neuenahr June 12-14, 1991
A Regime to Control Greenhouse Gases: Issues of Verification, Monitoring, Institutions: proceedings of a workshop Bad Neuenahr June 12-14, 1991
Today, it looks rather likely that the continuous pollution of the atmosphere with anthropogenic emissions, particularly the greenhouse gases (GHGs), will constitute "the" international environmental issue of the 1990s. As far as GHGs are concerned, no one participating at the scientific (...
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Personal Name(s): | di Primio, J. C. (Editor) |
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Stein, G. (Editor) | |
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Jülich
Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH Zentralbibliothek, Verlag
1992
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197 S. |
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978-3-89336-076-5 |
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Book |
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ohne Topic |
Series Title: |
Konferenzen des Forschungszentrums Jülich
10 |
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Publikationsportal JuSER |
Today, it looks rather likely that the continuous pollution of the atmosphere with anthropogenic emissions, particularly the greenhouse gases (GHGs), will constitute "the" international environmental issue of the 1990s. As far as GHGs are concerned, no one participating at the scientific (1985)$^{1}$ and policy-oriented (1987)$^{2}$ Villach conferences would have then predicted that this might indeed be the case : current activities in a number of different institutions throughout the world (R&D establishments and universities, industries, media, public administrations, international agencies, non-governmental organizations) are proliferating, interacting and superimposing. It is quite difficult not just to follow progress on the multitude of fronts but to understand how all this will lead to national policy making and implementation which, to make a dent in global potential effects, needs to be part of an internationally agreed and coordinated effort . A number of governments, in particular those of the industrialized countries, are striving to reach agreement by mid-1992 on a convention for protecting the atmosphere from further contamination by ever increasing rates of GHG emissions. If such a convention becomes reality and is widely accepted by the international community, it can be envisaged that formal national commitments will have to follow suit, giving targets and timing for the limitation of GHG emissions. As soon as those formal commitments become part of international law, the question of fulfilment of obligations will certainly arise. Some kind of international surveillance and assessment system will be required ; thus, the issue of verification will come into play. At this point a question arises : should thought and effort be devoted to this subject at such an early (and, some might add, improper) time? Our first involvement with it was, in fact, unplanned ; it came about in response to a request (May 1989) by the Study Commission of the 11th German Bundestag "Preventive Measures to Protect the Earth's [...] |