Policy Implications of Greenhouse Warming (1991) / Chapter Skim
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8 FINDINGS AND CONCLUSIONS
8 FINDINGS AND CONCLUSIONS
Pages 67-71
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The Synthesis Panel, however, considered additional materials in its deliberations and in the preparation of this report. These include, for example, the reports of the three IPCC working groups, the conference statement from the Second World Climate Conference, statements from other international meetings, publications of the national laboratories and other research organizations in the United States, and documents prepared in other countries.
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These countries, which already have difficulty coping with environmental stresses today, will be even more sorely pressed when confronted by climate change. This report examines response to greenhouse warming in the United States, a country richly endowed with natural and human resources, and one benefiting from a geography that encompasses many climate zones.
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The major defect with regulatory actions such as emission limits is that there is no easy way that the government can directly control emissions from so many different and separate sources. However, regulation as a technology-forcing mechanism has contributed to reducing emissions of key air pollutants in the United States.
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We need reviews and assessments of policy options to slow climate change, and improvements in the data base for understanding economic and environmental trends relating to global change. Because greenhouse warming is a global problem encompassing a wide range of areas, it will be important to establish programs that are interdisciplinary and examine developing countries as well as high-income countries like the United States.
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On this basis, the Synthesis Panel reached the collective judgment that the United States should undertake not only several actions that satisfy multiple goals but also several whose costs are justified mainly by countering or adapting to greenhouse warming. The panel believes that a systematic implementation of the complete set of low-cost options described in Chapter 9 is appropriate.
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