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For your information - EPA has recently received initial "questions for
the record" from the Senate Appropriations Committee and the House
Appropriations Committee on the FY 2004 President's Budget Request, one
of which from Congressman Knollenberg relates to the National Assessment
and the Climate Action Report (see attached Word tile).
(See attached file: Knollenberg-Climate.doc)
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3. mrQ
Congressman Knollenberg (KNO-00l)
Questions Submitted for the Record by Congressman Knollenberg
U.S. POLICY
CLIMATE ACTION REPORT: NATIONAL ASSESSMENT AS
Question: Despite assurances from the Administration that the National
submitted the
Assessment on Climate Change is not government policy, the EPA
Action
National Assessment to the United Nations as Chapter 6 of the Climate
government."
Report 2002 as a "policy position or official statements of the U.S.
of the
The EPA acknowledges in its Federal Register notice that it's submission
4.2 and 12 of
Climate Action Report, including Chapter 6, is pursuant to Articles
These Articles
the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
Articles 4.2
request detailed information on a country's climate change policy.
and 12 of the UJNFCCC state in relevant part:
4.2 (a) Each of these Parties shall adopt national policies and take,
corresponding measures on the mitigation of climate change, by limiting
its anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases and protecting and
and
enhancing its greenhouse gas sinks and reservoirs. These policies
measures will demonstrate that developed countries are taking the lead in
with
modifying longer-term trends in anthropogenic emissions consistent
the objective of the Convention... .(b) each of these Parties shall
communicate, within six months of the entry into force of the Convention
for it and periodically thereafter, and in accordance with Article 12,
detailed information on its policies and measures referred to in
subparagraph (a) above..."
in
12. 2 ....Each developed country Party and each other Party included
of
Annex I shall incorporate in its communication the following elements
that
information: (a) ....A detailed description of the policies and measures
it has adopted to implement its commitment under Article 4, paragraphs
2(a) and 2(b); and (b) ....A specific estimate of the effects that the
above
policies and measures referred to in subparagraph (a) immediately
will have on anthropogenic emissions by its sources and removals by its
sinks of greenhouse gases during the period referred to in Article 4,
paragraph 2(a)...
If the National Assessment does not represent U.S. government policy,
policy?
what document was submitted under Articles 4.2 and 12 as the U.S.
Answer: