Review of the Global Environment 10 Years After Stockholm: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Human Rights and International Organizations of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, Ninety-seventh Congress, Second Session, March 30, April 1 and 20, 1982U.S. Government Printing Office, 1982 - 528 страница |
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Страница 326 - that: •States have, in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations and the principles of international law, the sovereign right to exploit their own resources pursuant to their own environmental policies, and the responsibility to ensure that activities within their jurisdiction or control do not cause damage to the environment of other states or areas beyond the limits of national jurisdiction.
Страница 330 - the sovereign right to exploit their own resources pursuant to their own environmental policies, and the responsibility to ensure that activities within theirjurisdiction or control do not cause damage to
Страница 71 - United States development assistance should focus on critical problems in those functional sectors which affect the lives of the majority of the people in the developing countries; food production and nutrition; rural development and generation of gainful employment; population planning and health; environment and natural resources; and education, development administration, and human resources development.
Страница 71 - Furnish assistance ... for developing and strengthening the capacity of less developed countries to protect and manage their environment and natural resources. Special efforts shall be made to maintain and where possible restore the land, vegetation, water, wildlife, and other resources upon which depend economic growth and
Страница 74 - the President is authorized to furnish assistance under this part for developing and strengthening the capacity of developing countries to protect and manage their environment and natural resources. Special efforts shall be made to maintain and where possible to restore the land, vegetation, water, wildlife, and other resources upon which depend economic growth and human wellbeing, especially of the poor.
Страница 72 - Furnish assistance... for cooperative programs with developing countries in energy production and conservation, with particular emphasis on programs in research and development, and use of small-scale, decentralized, renewable energy sources for rural areas carried out as integral parts of rural development efforts in accordance with Section 103-.•
Страница 73 - Inadequate access by the poor to energy sources as well as the prospect of depleted fossil fuel reserves and higher energy prices require an enhanced effort to expand the energy resources of developing countries, primarily through greater emphasis on renewable sources. Renewable and decentralized energy technologies have particular applicability for the poor, especially in rural areas.
Страница 376 - responsibility to ensure that activities within their jurisdiction or control do not cause damage to the environment of other states or areas beyond the limits of national jurisdiction.
Страница 359 - the Club works in the United States and other countries to restore the quality of the natural environment, to maintain the integrity of ecosystems and to promote the use of prudent resource management so that future generations may be assured of a secure and healthy life. Since
Страница 72 - In furtherance of the purposes of this section, the President shall carry out studies to identify the major environment and natural resource problems, and the institutional capabilities to solve those problems, which exist in developing countries. The results of these studies shall be reported to the Congress by March 1, 1979.