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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."
Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Conference of the Air Resources
Information Clearinghouse held in Washington, D.C., December 5-6,
1991
Papers, discussions, and speeches from The Center for Environmental
Information meeting in Rochester, New York, December 1991, explore
the integration of energy, economic, and social concerns with
environmental protection. Among the topics are technological
options for sustainable energy, implicatio
The revised edition of the renowned and bestselling title is the
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to medical device development, global issues related to
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Biomaterials Science, 4th edition is an important update to the
best-selling text, vital to the biomaterials' community.
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