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21. Political Leadership and the Brundtland Report: What Are the Implications for Public Policy
21. Political Leadership and the Brundtland Report: What Are the Implications for Public Policy
Pages 204-208
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report that about 1 billion kg of toxic chemicals are released annually and 100 million Americans breathe pollutants that exceed federal standards. Representative Henry Waxman was quoted as saying that "EPA has broken commitment after commitment to deal with this problem" during the 19-year life of the Clean Air Act.
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Take the Clean Air Act: Why must Representative Waxman scream 19 years later about lack of enforcement? In the case of the Law of the Sea, why have Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union, to name a few major maritime nations, not signed or ratified it?
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In Japan a white paper was produced in response to the Brundtland report, outlining Japan's contribution toward the conservation of the global environment. In Indonesia the government approaches sustainable development in its seventh national economic plan.
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o Make environmental impact assessments of major economic sectoral policies mandatory before mega-projects are approved and major decisions are made. o Ensure that we live off the earth's interest without encroaching on its capital, investing to sustain and even enhance that capital so that future dividends can be ensured and enlarged.
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We must find again ways of generating the leadership required at all levels of Government, in all sectors of society, v , I, to change present trends as Gro Harlem Brundtland has urged. And for a simple reason, given so poignantly by way of a graffito painted on a bridge in Rock Creek Park in Washington D.C.
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