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THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release
April 17, 1990
REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT
IN THE OPENING ADDRESS
TO THE WHITE HOUSE CONFERENCE ON SCIENCE
AND ECONOMICS RESEARCH RELATED TO GLOBAL CHANGE
The Grand Ballroom
The J.W. Marriott Hotel
Washington, D.C.
10:06 A.M. EDT
THE PRESIDENT: Thank you very much. Please be seated,
and welcome. Thank you very much for the welcome. I apologize for
the slight delay in there. Thank you, Secretary Brady, and members
of the U.S. delegation, members of my Cabinet and the cochairmen of
this conference, Michael Boskin and Allan Bromley; Michael Deland.
And I'm pleased to welcome this international field of distinguished
high-level officials -- experts all on the environment, economics,
science and energy. Welcome to the White House Conference on Global
Change.
Two months ago I had the honor of addressing the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. And let me recognize Bert
Bolin who is here, IPCC Chairman, here with us this morning. I see
this conference helping to accelerate the IPCC's agenda as it
searches for understanding of some very critical questions,
broadening the dialogue by exploring the link between scientific
research and economic analysis in the study of global change.
And of course, this conference is itself another sign of
the growing importance of the environment on the international
agenda. Here in the United States we've moved one step closer to a
great victory for the environment, strengthening our own clean air
statutes, already the world's toughest, with a comprehensive package
of new clean air initiatives.
Ten months ago we renewed momentum lost in legislative
stalemate for 12 years. Just this month, a clean air package cleared
the United States Senate with House action hopefully possible in May.
We're moving forward on clean air legislation because it is in
America's interest. But like so many of the environmental issues
that concern us, we aren't the only beneficiary of a better
environment.
When it comes to the environment, we are learning that
local actions can have global consequences. Understanding the
effects of our actions on our Earth system is the first step to a
sound environment. And the subject that led me to invite all of you
here is just exactly that.
I want to speak just briefly this morning so you can get
on about your work. But I want to speak about what we can do over
the course of the next couple of days to advance our understanding of
global change. This conference will help in three ways. First, it
provides an opportunity to help sort out the science on this complex
issue, to start with what we know about the Earth, and this home we
share. About the factors, natural as well as man-made, that cause
our environment to change, and to work from what we know toward
answers to the many uncertainties that abound.
Perhaps it's not surprising when the subject is global
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- 2 -
change that the debate often generates more heat than light. Some of
you may have seen two sides -- on one of our talk shows on Sunday
respected men debating global change. One scientist argued that if
we keep burning fossil fuels at today's rate, and I quote, "By the
end of the next century, Earth could be nine degrees Fahrenheit
warmer than today." And the other scientist saw no evidence of rapid
change and warned against a drastic reordering of our economy that
could cause us, in his words, "to end up the impoverished nation
awaiting a warming that never comes." Two scientists, two
diametrically opposed points of view. Now, where does that leave us?
What we need are facts, the stuff that science is made
of. A better understanding of the basic processes at work in our
whole world -- better Earth system models that enable us to calculate
the complex interaction between man and our environment. And that's
why I've asked Congress, our Congress, to approve a 60 percent
increase in our budget for the global change research program -- an
aggressive research program for which we budgeted more than $1
billion in 1991 to reduce the uncertainties surrounding global
change. To advance the scientific understanding we need if we are to
make decisions to maximize benefits and minimize the unintended
consequences.
The second way this gathering can advance our
understanding is to address the economic factor and environmental
questions. We know that cleaning up our environment costs money -- a
lot of money -- and we know it means changes in the way we work and
live. Here, in the United States, we're already making those
changes, moving forward on clean air, planting trees through our
"America the Beautiful" initiative, and working with other nations to
find ways to halt deforestation, phasing out the use of CFCs,
encouraging conservation, exploring alternative sources of fuel and
energy, and market-based incentives for pollution control.
And yet, as we move forward, all of us must make certain
we preserve our environmental well-being and our economic welfare.
We know that these are not separate concerns. They are two sides of
the same coin. Recognizing this fact is in the interest of every
nation here today. It's in the interest of the developed world, and
the developing world alike.
Let me focus for just a moment on the developing world.
In a climate of poverty or persistent economic struggle, protecting
the environment becomes a far more difficult challenge. Cold
statistics don't begin to capture the harsh realities that are at
stake. Development doesn't mean just another point in the gross
national product, the GNP; it's measured in human lives, an end to
hunger, lower infant mortality, longer life expectancy. Not just
quality of life, but life itself.
Environmental policies that ignore the economic factor,
the human factor, are destined to fail. But there's another reason
to consider the economic factor when the issue is the environment.
There is no better ally in service of our environment than strong
economies. Economies that make possible the increased efficiencies
that enable us to make environmental gains. Economies that generate
the new technologies that help us arrest and reverse the damage that
we've done to our environment. We need new economies that allow us
to make vital investments in our common future.
And that brings me to the third way this conference
contributes to a net gain in knowledge. The fact that it provides us
the opportunity to form a partnership between nations and across the
many disciplines represented here. Few subjects offer a greater
challenge to the understanding of man than global change. And yet,
too often the different disciplines focusing on this question have
worked in isolation with little interchange of ideas, analysis,
information.
This conference is a new departure because it brings
MORE
- 3 -
together environmentalists and economists, experts on energy and
science to search for common ground. To search the expertise each
discipline can bring to this difficult and demanding concern. And
this new partnership must bind nations as well. The fact of the
matter is, no one nation acting alone can safeguard our Earth
environment. Success requires a sense of global stewardship, an
understanding that it is the Earth that endures, and that all of us
are no more than tenants in temporary possession of a sacred trust.
For the next two days, you, in essence, will be grappling
with the questions, the fundamental questions of global stewardship;
questions of global consequence. I know there's a debate raging out
there, but I am confident that this approach that brings all of you
experts together is the way to go.
I thank you very much for joining us here. I will be
over after digesting the product of your work tomorrow, to have a few
more words to say. But from the bottom of my heart, I thank you for
coming. There have been a lot of these environmenal conferences
around the world, but this one, I think, approaches the fundamentals.
And we are fortunate to have here in America you experts from all
around the world.
Thank you for coming. I look forward to hearing the
results of your work. God bless you all. Thank you very much.
(Applause.)
END
10:17 A.M. EDT
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
April 13, 1990
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
THROUGH:
CHRISS WINSTON cw
FROM:
DAN MCGROARTY much
SUBJECT:
WHITE HOUSE CONFERENCE ON GLOBAL CHANGE: WELCOME
I. SUMMARY
On Tuesday, April 17, at 10:00 a.m. you will address
the first plenary session of the White House Conference on
Global Change at the J.W. Marriott. About 400-450 people
will be in the audience, representing the U.S. and seventeen
foreign delegations, the EC and OECD.
Chairman Boskin is the moderator for the session, and
Secretary Brady will speak before you. The three co-
chairmen of the conference -- Chairmen Boskin and Deland and
Director Bromley -- will be there. Also present will be;
Governor Sununu, Secretaries Mosbacher, Lujan, Yeutter,
Watkins, Administrator Reilley, Erich Bloch (Director of
National Science Foundation), and John Knauss (Director of
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration).
II. DISCUSSION
The remarks (10 min./teleprompter) discuss the three
ways this conference will help tackle global change,
focusing on the issues of scientific uncertainty and
understanding; the relation of science and economics, and
the need to form an international partnership of knowledge
and investigation on the matter.
###
McGroarty/Dooley
April 13, 1990
3:00 pm
[change]
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: WHITE HOUSE CONFERENCE ON GLOBAL CHANGE
J.W. MARRIOTT
APRIL 17, 1990
10:00 A.M.
Thank you. [Introductory acknowledgements.] I'm pleased to
welcome this international field of distinguished high-level
officials -- experts on the environment, economics, science and
energy to the White House Conference on Global Change.
Two months ago, I had the honor of addressing the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change -- the UN body doing
such vital work on this key environmental issue. I see this
conference helping to accelerate the IPCC's agenda as it searches
for understanding of some very critical questions. //
This gathering is the first to focus on the obligation to
broaden the global change dialogue -- the first to explore the
link between scientific research and economic analysis in the
study of global change. 11 And of course, this conference is
itself another sign of the growing importance of the environment
on the international agenda.
Here in the United States, we've moved one step closer to a
great victory for the environment: strengthening our Clean Air
statutes -- already the world's toughest -- with a comprehensive
package of new Clean Air initiatives.
2
Ten months ago, we renewed momentum lost in legislative
stalemate for 12 years. / This month, a clean air package
cleared the U.S. Senate, with overwhelming support. And just two
weeks ago, the House Committee on Energy and Commerce voted out
its own version of a clean air bill, 42-1 -- with a full, floor
vote in the House possible in early May. 11
The hard work isn't over. Both Houses -- and the White
House -- still have plenty to say on the shape of the final Clean
Air bill. But we certainly hope that the United States will have
a new Clean Air Act on the books before the year is out. 11
We're moving ahead on Clean Air legislation because it is in
America's interest. But, like so many of the environmental
issues that concern us -- we aren't the only beneficiary of a
better environment. // When it comes to the environment, we are
learning that local actions can have global consequences.
Understanding the effects of our actions on our Earth system
is the first step to a sound environment -- and the subject that
led me to invite all of you here. I want to speak this morning
about what we can do over the course of the next two days to
advance our understanding of the critical question of global
change.
This conference will help in three ways.
First, it provides an opportunity to help sort out the
science on the complex issue of global change. // To start with
what we know -- about the Earth, this home we share. About the
factors -- natural as well as man-made -- that cause our
3
environment to change. // And to work from what we know toward
answers to the many uncertainties that abound.
Perhaps it's not surprising when the subject is global
change that the debate often generates more heat than light. 11
One thing we do know is that we can't afford to bury our heads in
the sand. // What we need are facts: the stuff science is made
of. A better understanding of the basic processes and their
relationships as they work in our environment. Better earth
system models -- that enable us to calculate the complex
interaction between man and our environment.
That's why I've asked Congress to approve a 60% increase in
our budget for the Global Change Research Program -- an
aggressive research program for which we've budgeted more than $1
billion dollars in 1991 -- to reduce the uncertainties
surrounding global change, and move us closer to the scientific
understanding we need, if we are to make decisions to maximize
benefits -- and minimize unintended consequences. //
The second way this gathering can advance our understanding
is to address the economic factor in environmental questions. We
know that cleaning up our environment costs money. We know it
means changes in the way we work and live. Here in the U.S.,
we're already making those changes -- moving forward on clean
air. Planting trees -- through our America the Beautiful
initiative -- and working with other nations to find ways to halt
deforestation. Phasing-out the use of CFCs. Encouraging
conservation and exploring alternative sources of fuel and
4
energy, and market-based incentives for pollution control. We're
proud of all we've done -- but we know we're far from finished.
And yet as we move forward, all of us must make certain we
preserve our environmental well-being and our economic welfare.
We know that these are not separate concerns. They are two sides
of the same coin. Recognizing this fact is in the interest of
every nation here today -- in the interests of the developed
world and the developing world alike.
Let me focus for a moment on the developing world. In a
climate of poverty, or persistent economic struggle, protecting
the environment becomes a far more difficult challenge. Cold
statistics don't begin to capture the harsh realities at stake.
Development doesn't mean just another point of GNP -- it's
measured in human lives. An end to hunger. Longer life
expectancy. Lower infant mortality. 11 Not just quality of
life -- but life itself. Environmental policies that ignore the
economic factor -- the human factor -- are destined to fail.
But there is another reason to consider the economic factor
when the issue is the environment. Economic policies that ignore
the environment will undermine the very basis for both life and
growth. There is no better ally in service of our environment
than strong economies. Economies that make possible the
increased efficiencies that enable us to make environmental
gains. Economies that generate the new technologies that help us
arrest and reverse the damage we have done to our environment.
Whatever the technology -- whether it's CFC substitutes, new
5
refrigerants, reformulated gasoline -- each new venture provides
economic opportunities as well as environmental benefits. // We
need economies that allow us to make vital investments in our
common future. //
That brings me to the third way this conference contributes
to a net gain in knowledge: the fact that it provides us the
opportunity to form a partnership -- between nations, and across
the many disciplines represented here.
No subject is so vast as the field of global change. Few
subjects offer a greater challenge to the understanding of man.
And yet, too often, the different disciplines focusing on this
question have worked in isolation -- with little interchange of
ideas, analysis, information.
This conference is a new departure -- a logical next step in
the study of global change -- because it brings together, for the
first time at a high level and in a working format,
environmentalists and economists, experts from the fields of
energy and science -- to search for common ground. To provide an
opportunity to share the expertise each discipline can bring to
this difficult and demanding concern.
And this new partnership must bind nations as well. The
fact of the matter is, no one nation -- acting alone -- can
safeguard our Earth environment. Success requires a sense of
global stewardship -- an understanding that it is the Earth that
endures -- and that all of us are no more than tenants, in
temporary possession of a sacred trust. 11
6
For the next two days, you'll be grappling with questions of
global stewardship -- questions of global consequence. I thank
all of you for joining us here -- for seeking to advance our
current state of understanding on an issue with such profound
affect on every nation and every individual for generations to
come. // God bless you all.
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ENVIRONMENT
ABC's Kathleen deLaski reports that global warming is the biggest
issue for many environmentalists for this year's Earth Day. But
today on "This Week with David Brinkley," scientists were still
debating whether it's even happening.
(Michael Oppenheimer, Environmental Defense Fund: "If we let
fossil fuel burning continue as we are now by the end of the next-
century Earth could be 9 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than today.")
As a result some scientists say many fertile areas could one day
be desert and coastal areas like New York could be under water.
But other scientists say those projections are wrong, and there is
no reason to spend a lot of money reducing carbon dioxide
émissions.
(Patrick Michaels, University of Virginia: "The very real
possibility, given the way the data is running, is that we wind up
with an impoverished nation waiting a warming that never comes.")
The Bush Administration is not choosing sides.
(EPA Administrator Reilly: "We have to be cautious, careful, and
take out something of an insurance policy.")
At the global warming conference here this week President Bush is
expected to tell other countries that more research is needed
before any dramatic steps are taken.
Simpson reports that in an unusual twist, scientists in California
are challenging the wisdom of an environmental protection law
enacted by Congress saying it goes much too far in the effort to
keep the Pacific Ocean clean.
ABC's Jed Duvall reports 190 million gallons of sewage every day
pours out into the ocean in San Diego, CA. But those who say it
is all right are distinguished scientists of extraordinary
reputation. The pipe goes out two miles offshore and empties at
a depth of 200 feet. The toxics and 80 percent of the solids have
been removed. And fish and plant life there are abundant.
(Mia Tegner, Scripps Institution of Oceanography: "Certain amounts
of sewage spread well over large areas -- in other words, so
they're well-diluted, are in fact simply an addition of nutrients
to the ocean.")
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11:00 am
[change]
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: WHITE HOUSE CONFERENCE ON GLOBAL CHANGE
J.W. MARRIOTT
APRIL 17, 1990
X:XX A.M.
Thank you. [Introductory acknowledgements. ] I'm pleased to
distinguided
welcome this international field of high-level officials --
experts on the environment, economy, science and energy to the
White House Conference on Global Change.
Two months ago, I had the honor of addressing the
International Panel on Climate Change -- a UN body doing such
vital work on this key environmental issue. I see this
complimentary helping to accelerate the IPCC's
conference making a key contribution to the process begun by the
agenda as it searches for understanding of some very critical
IPCC. // questions.
the obligation to broaden
This gathering is the first to focus on a new dimension in
the global change dialogue -- the first to explore the link
between scientific research and economic analysis in the study of
global change. // And of course, this conference is itself
another sign of the growing importance of the environment on the
international agenda.
Here in the United States, we've moved one step closer to a
toughest
great victory for the environment: the passage of a
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significantly stronger Clean Air Act. Ten months ago, we renewed
stalemate
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momentum lost for 12 years. / This month, our clean air package
cleared the U.S. Senate, with overwhelming support. And just
2
two weeks ago
last week, the House Committee on Energy and Commerce voted out
with
its own version of a clean air bill, 42-1 -- and a full, floor
vote in the House may come in early May. //
The hard work isn't over. Both Houses -- and the White
House -- still have plenty to say on the shape of the final Clean
hope
Air bill. But we can say with certainty that the United States
will have a new Clean Air Act on the books before the year is
out. //
Let me be clear: We're moving ahead on Clean Air
legislation because it is in America's interest. But, like so
many of the environmental issues that concern us -- we aren't the
only beneficiary of a better environment. // When it comes to
can
the environment, we are learning that local actions have global
consequences.
Understanding the effects of our actions on the environment
environment
is the first step to a sound ecology -- and the subject that led
me to invite all of you here. I want to speak this morning about
what we can do over the course of the next two days to advance
our understanding of the critical question of global change.
This conference will help in three ways.
help
First, it provides an opportunity to sort out the science on
the complex issue of global change. // To start with what we
know -- about the Earth, this home we share. About the factors -
- natural as well as man-made -- that cause our environment to
change. // And to work from what we know toward answers to the
many uncertainties that abound. One thing we do know
IS that we can't a fford to bury our headsm
the sand.
3
Perhaps it's not surprising when the subject is global
change that the debate often generates more heat than light. //
Certainly, the apocalyptic pronouncements we've all heard don't
help us make policy. If they're meant to wake us up warn us
about the urgency of this issue well, we already know enough
to know we can't afford to bury our heads in the sand
What we need are is fact the stuff science is made of. A
ancl their relationships as they
better understanding of the basic processes at work in our
environment, and how they relate to one another. Better earth
system models that enable us to calculate the complex
interaction between man and our environment.
That's why I've asked Congress to approve a 60% increase in
our budget for the Global Change Research Program -- an
aggressive research program for which I've budgeted more than $1
billion dollars in 1991 -- to reduce the uncertainties
surrounding global change, and move us closer to the scientific
1.f weare to
make decisions to maxmize benefits
understanding we need.
//
and minimize whintended consequences.
The second way this gathering can advance our understanding
is to address the economic factor in environmental questions. We
know that cleaning up our environment costs money. We know it
means changes in the way we work and live. Here in the U.S.,
we're already making those changes -- whether it's moving forward
on clean air, phasing-out the use of CFCs, or exploring
alternative sources of fuel and energy. We're proud of what
encouraging energy conservation hus
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we've done -- but we know we're far from finished.
we know that these are not separate concerns. They are two
sides of the same coin. Recognizma R
And yet as we move forward, all of us must make certain we
preserve our environmental well-being and our economic welfare.
fact
This is in the interest of every nation here today -- in the
interests of the developed world and the developing world alike.
Let me focus for a moment on the developing world. In a
climate of poverty, or persistent economic decline, struggle protecting
the environment becomes a far more difficult challenge. Cold
statistics don't begin to capture the harsh realities at stake.
Development doesn't mean just another point of GNP -- it's
meansured in human lives. An end to hunger. Longer life
expectancy. Lower infant mortality. // Not just quality of
life -- but life itself. Environmental policies that ignore the
economic factor -- the human factor -- are destined to fail.
Economic policies
But there is another reason to consider the economic factor
that gnore the
when the issue is the environment
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the ronment
undermine
service of our environment than strong economies. Economies that
will the both very busis life
make possible the increased efficiencies that enable us to make
for and growth.
environmental gains. Economies that generate the new
technologies that help us arrest and reverse the damage we have
done to our environment. π vital investments in our common
Economics that allow us to make
future.
That brings me to the third way this conference contributes
to a net gain in knowledge: the fact that it provides us the
opportunity to form a partnership -- between nations, and across
the many disciplines represented here.
field
No subject is so vast as the study of global change -- the
ecology of the Earth. No subject offers greater challenges to
5
the understanding of man. Too often, these different disciplines
focusing on this question have worked in isolation -- with little
interchange of ideas, analysis, information.
This conference is a new departure -- a logical next step in
for the first time
the study of global change -- because it brings together at a high level
environmentalists and economists, experts from the fields of format
and in a woveng
provide an
energy and science -- to search for common ground, to create a
opportunity to
clearing house through which we share the expertise each
discipline can bring to this difficult and demanding concern.
And this new partnership must bind nations as well. The
fact of the matter is, no one nation -- acting alone -- can
safeguard our Earth environment. Success requires a sense of
global stewardship -- an understanding that it is the Earth that
endures -- and that all of us are no more than tenants, in
temporary possession of a sacred trust. //
For the next two days, you'll be grappling with questions of
global consequence. I thank all of you for joining us here --
for seeking to advance our current state of understanding on an
issue with such profound affect on every nation and every
individual for generations to come. // God bless you all.
# # #
I's to the 4's.
McGroarty/Dooley
April 13, 1990
(BROMLEY'S)
2:00 pm
[change]
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: WHITE HOUSE CONFERENCE ON GLOBAL CHANGE
J.W. MARRIOTT
APRIL 17, 1990
10:00 A.M.
Thank you. [Introductory acknowledgements.) I'm pleased to
welcome this international field of distinguished high-level
officials -- experts on the environment, economics, science and
energy to the White House Conference on Global Change.
Two months ago, I had the honor of addressing the
Intergovernmental
UN
International Panel on Climate Change -- the international body
doing such vital work on this key environmental issue. I see
this conference helping to accelerate the IPCC's agenda as it
searches for understanding of some very critical questions. //
This gathering is the first to focus on the obligation to
broaden the global change dialogue -- the first to explore the
link between scientific research and economic analysis in the
study of global change. // And of course, this conference is
itself another sign of the growing importance of the environment
on the international agenda.
Here in the United States, we've moved one step closer to a
great victory for the environment: strengthening our Clean Air
statutes -- already the world's toughest -- with a comprehensive
package of new Clean Air initiatives.
2
Ten months ago, we renewed momentum lost in legislative
stalemate for 12 years. / This month, a clean air package
cleared the U.S. Senate, with overwhelming support. And just two
weeks ago, the House Committee on Energy and Commerce voted out
its own version of a clean air bill, 42-1 -- with a full, floor
vote in the House possible in early May. //
The hard work isn't over. Both Houses -- and the White
House -- still have plenty to say on the shape of the final Clean
Air bill. But we certainly hope that the United States will have
a new Clean Air Act on the books before the year is out. //
We're moving ahead on Clean Air legislation because it is in
America's interest. But, like so many of the environmental
issues that concern us -- we aren't the only beneficiary of a
better environment. 11 When it comes to the environment, we are
learning that local actions can have global consequences.
Understanding the effects of our actions on our Earth system
is the first step to a sound environment -- and the subject that
led me to invite all of you here. I want to speak this morning
about what we can do over the course of the next two days to
advance our understanding of the critical question of global
change.
This conference will help in three ways.
First, it provides an opportunity to help sort out the
science on the complex issue of global change. // To start with
what we know -- about the Earth, this home we share. About the
factors -- natural as well as man-made -- that cause our
3
environment to change. // And to work from what we know toward
answers to the many uncertainties that abound.
Perhaps it's not surprising when the subject is global
change that the debate often generates more heat than light. //
One thing we do know is that we can't afford to bury our heads in
the sand. // What we need are facts: the stuff science is made
of. A better understanding of the basic processes and their
relationships as they work in our environment. Better earth
system models -- that enable us to calculate the complex
interaction between man and our environment.
That's why I've asked Congress to approve a 60% increase in
our budget for the Global Change Research Program -- an
aggressive research program for which we've budgeted more than $1
billion dollars in 1991 -- to reduce the uncertainties
surrounding global change, and move us closer to the scientific
understanding we need, if we are to make decisions to maximize
benefits --- and minimize unintended consequences. //
The second way this gathering can advance our understanding
is to address the economic factor in environmental questions. We
know that cleaning up our environment costs money. We know it
means changes in the way we work and live. Here in the U.S.,
we're already making those changes -- moving forward on clean
air. Planting trees -- in through our America the Beautiful initiative -
-
and working with other nations to find ways to halt the
deforestation that threatens the world's wildlife and millions of
species found only in the world's forests -- species we risk
4
losing forever Phasing-out the use of CFCs. Encouraging
conservation and exploring alternative sources of fuel and
energy, and market-based incentives for pollution control. We're
proud of all we've done -- but we know we're far from finished.
And yet as we move forward, all of us must make certain we
preserve our environmental well-being and our economic welfare.
We know that these are not separate concerns. They are two sides
of the same coin. Recognizing this fact is in the interest of
every nation here today -- in the interests of the developed
world and the developing world alike.
Let me focus for a moment on the developing world. In a
climate of poverty, or persistent economic struggle, protecting
the environment becomes a far more difficult challenge. Cold
statistics don't begin to capture the harsh realities at stake.
Development doesn't mean just another point of GNP -- it's
measured in human lives. An end to hunger. Longer life
expectancy. Lower infant mortality. // Not just quality of
life -- but life itself. Environmental policies that ignore the
economic factor -- the human factor -- are destined to fail.
But there is another reason to consider the economic factor
when the issue is the environment. Economic policies that ignore
the environment will undermine the very basis for both life and
growth. There is no better ally in service of our environment
than strong economies. Economies that make possible the
increased efficiencies that enable us to make environmental
gains. Economies that generate the new technologies that help us
STED
5
arrest and reverse the damage we have done to our environment.
Whatever the technology -- whether it's CFC substitutes, new
refridgerants, reformulated gasoline - each new venture provides
economic opportunities as well as environmental benefits. // We
need economies that allow us to make vital investments in our
common future. //
That brings me to the third way this conference contributes
to a net gain in knowledge: the fact that it provides us the
opportunity to form a partnership -- between nations, and across
the many disciplines represented here.
No subject is so vast as the field of global change the
ecology of the Earth. No subject offers greater challenges to
the understanding of man. Too often, these different disciplines
focusing on this question have worked in isolation ---- with little
interchange of ideas, analysis, information.
This conference is a new departure -- a logical next step in
the study of global change -- because it brings together, for the
first time at a high level and in a working format,
environmentalists and economists, experts from the fields of
energy and science -- to search for common ground. To provide an
opportunity to share the expertise each discipline can bring to
this difficult and demanding concern.
And this new partnership must bind nations as well. The
fact of the matter is, no one nation -- acting alone -- can
safeguard our Earth environment. Success requires a sense of
global stewardship -- an understanding that it is the Earth that
6
endures -- and that all of us are no more than tenants, in
temporary possession of a sacred trust. //
For the next two days, you' 11 be grappling with questions of
Stewordships g'onf
global consequence. I thank all of you for joining us here --
for seeking to advance our current state of understanding on an
issue with such profound affect on every nation and every
individual for generations to come. // God bless you all.
# # #
But what is remarkable is not the differences that remain -- but
the differences we've overcome: the solid ground of consensus
we've reached on so many contentious issues. The result:
insert to Poge 3
essence
Responding to change involves costs, but it as importantly,
it
also involves opportunities. The messone of environmental
protection is to be economically efficient --
waste less of what we use. That provides us
with technological challenges and business
opportunities. whether it is finding
substitutes for LFCS, designing new
refrigerators, or reformulation our gasoline,
we in the US are
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PORTER
DARMAN
ROGICH
BATES
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I Staffed to:
Reilly Henson moore
James W. Cicconi
Assistant to the President
N/C Brads
and Deputy to the Chief of Staff
N/C steve D.
Ext. 2702
McGroarty/Dooley
April 12, 1990
1990 APR 12 PM 12: 08
11:00 am
[change]
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: WHITE HOUSE CONFERENCE ON GLOBAL CHANGE
J.W. MARRIOTT
APRIL 17, 1990
X:XX A.M.
Thank you. [Introductory acknowledgements.] I'm pleased to
welcome this international field of high-level officials --
experts on the environment, economy, science and energy to the
White House Conference on Global Change.
Two months ago, I had the honor of addressing the
International Panel on Climate Change -- a UN body doing such
vital work on this key environmental issue. I see this
conference making a key contribution to the process begun by the
FRAMEWORK see
IPCC. 11
This gathering is the first to focus on a new dimension in
pase
the global change dialogue -- the first to explore the link
between scientific research and economic analysis in the study of
global change. 11 And of course, this conference is itself
another sign of the growing importance of the environment on the
international agenda.
Here in the United States, we've moved one step closer to a
great victory for the environment: the passage of a
significantly stronger Clean Air Act. Ten months ago, we renewed
momentum lost for 12 years. / This month, our clean air package
cleared the U.S. Senate, with overwhelming support. And just
2
two wee saso,
last week, the House Committee on Energy and Commerce voted out
(Reilly)
its own version of a clean air bill, 42-1 -- and a full, floor
vote in the House may come in early May. 11
The hard work isn't over. Both Houses -- and the White
House -- still have plenty to say on the shape of the final Clean
Air bill. But we can say with certainty that the United States
will have a new Clean Air Act on the books before the year is
out. 11
Let me be clear: We're moving ahead on Clean Air
legislation because it is in America's interest. But, like so
many of the environmental issues that concern us -- we aren't the
only beneficiary of a better environment. 11 When it comes to
the environment, we are learning that local actions have global
consequences.
Understanding the effects of our actions on the environment
is the first step to a sound ecology -- and the subject that led
me to invite all of you here. I want to speak this morning about
what we can do over the course of the next two days to advance
our understanding of the critical question of global change.
This conference will help in three ways.
First, it provides an opportunity to sort out the science on
the complex issue of global change. 11 To start with what we
know -- about the Earth, this home we share. About the factors -
- natural as well as man-made -- that cause our environment to
change. 11 And to work from what we know toward answers to the
many uncertainties that abound.
3
Perhaps it's not surprising when the subject is global
change that the debate often generates more heat than light. //
Certainly, the apocalyptic pronouncements we've all heard don't
help us make policy. If they're meant to wake us up -- warn us
about the urgency of this issue -- well, we already know enough
to know we can't afford to bury our heads in the sand.
What we need is fact: the stuff science is made of. A
better understanding of the basic processes at work in our
environment -- and how they relate to one another. Better earth
system models -- that enable us to calculate the complex
interaction between man and our environment.
That's why I've asked Congress to approve a 60% increase in
our budget for the Global Change Research Program -- an
aggressive research program for which I've budgeted more than $1
billion dollars in 1991 -- to reduce the uncertainties
surrounding global change, and move us closer to the scientific
understanding we need. //
The second way this gathering can advance our understanding
is to address the economic factor in environmental questions. We
know that cleaning up our environment costs money. We know it
means changes in the way we work and live. Here in the U.S.,
weile
we're already making those changes whether it's moving forward
on clean air, phasing-out the use of CFCs, or exploring
alternative sources of fuel and energy. We're proud of what
we've done but we know we're far from finished.
working to stop deprestation
planting fees - and working to half
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(we 10mg in forever
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world's
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4
And yet as we move forward, all of us must make certain we
preserve our environmental well-being and our economic welfare.
This is in the interest of every nation here today -- in the
interests of the developed world and the developing world alike.
Let me focus for a moment on the developing world. In a
struggle
climate of poverty, or persistent economic dooline, protecting
the environment becomes a far more difficult challenge. Cold
statistics don't begin to capture the harsh realities at stake.
Development doesn't mean just another point of GNP -- it's
meansured in human lives. An end to hunger. Longer life
expectancy. Lower infant mortality. // Not just quality of
life -- but life itself. Environmental policies that ignore the
economic factor -- the human factor -- are destined to fail.
But there is another reason to consider the economic factor
when the issue is the environment. There is no better ally in
service of our environment than strong economies. Economies that
make possible the increased efficiencies that enable us to make
environmental gains. Economies that generate the new
technologies that help us arrest and reverse the damage we have
done to our environment. // Subs Subsitudes for CFC, new refridgerants,
reformulated
That brings me to the third way this conference contributes
gasoline.-
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new ventmes
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ecology of the Earth. No subject offers greater challenges to
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the understanding of man. Too often, these different disciplines
focusing on this question have worked in isolation -- with little
interchange of ideas, analysis, information.
This conference is a new departure -- a logical next step in
the study of global change -- because it brings together
environmentalists and economists, experts from the fields of
energy and science -- to search for common ground, to create a
clearing house through which we share the expertise each
discipline can bring to this difficult and demanding concern.
And this new partnership must bind nations as well. The
fact of the matter is, no one nation -- acting alone -- can
safeguard our Earth environment. Success requires a sense of
global stewardship -- an understanding that it is the Earth that
endures -- and that all of us are no more than tenants, in
temporary possession of a sacred trust. //
For the next two days, you'll be grappling with questions of
global consequence. I thank all of you for joining us here --
for seeking to advance our current state of understanding on an
issue with such profound affect on every nation and every
individual for generations to come. // God bless you all.
#
#
#
2 general points from Reilly:
1. He would like the President to make a personal statement on
forest losses, tied into the tree planting initiative. He would like
the President to express his concern for deforestation the wildlife in
the forests etc.
2. He would like the President to reiterate his commitment to developing
the framework for an international treaty on climate change +
that
heis hosting a conference next fall to nesotiate that
framework treaty.
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DATE: 4/12/90
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY:
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SUBJECT:
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
MCCLURE
SUNUNU
NEWMAN
SCOWCROFT
PORTER
DARMAN
ROGICH
BATES
UNTERMEYER
CARD
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CICCONI
WINSTON
DEMAREST
BROMLEY
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DELAND
GRAY
BOSKIN
HAGIN
ADAIR, Doug
REMARKS:
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x2930, no later than 9:00 AM, Friday, April 13, with a copy to
my office. Thank you.
RESPONSE:
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James W. Cicconi
Assistant to the President
and Deputy to the Chief of Staff
Ext. 2702
McGroarty/Dooley
April 12, 1990
1990 APR 12 PM 12: 08
11:00 am
[change]
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: WHITE HOUSE CONFERENCE ON GLOBAL CHANGE
J.W. MARRIOTT
APRIL 17, 1990
X:XX A.M.
Thank you. [Introductory acknowledgements.] I'm pleased to
welcome this international field of high-level officials --
experts on the environment, economy, science and energy to the
White House Conference on Global Change.
Two months ago, I had the honor of addressing the
International Panel on Climate Change -- a UN body doing such
vital work on this key environmental issue. I see this
conference making a key contribution to the process begun by the
IPCC. 11
This gathering is the first to focus on a new dimension in
the global change dialogue -- the first to explore the link
between scientific research and economic analysis in the study of
global change. 11 And of course, this conference is itself
another sign of the growing importance of the environment on the
international agenda.
Here in the United States, we've moved one step closer to a
great victory for the environment: the passage of a
significantly stronger Clean Air Act. Ten months ago, we renewed
momentum lost for 12 years. / This month, our clean air package
cleared the U.S. Senate, with overwhelming support. And just
2
last week, the House Committee on Energy and Commerce voted out
its own version of a clean air bill, 42-1 -- and a full, floor
vote in the House may come in early May. //
The hard work isn't over. Both Houses -- and the White
House -- still have plenty to say on the shape of the final Clean
Air bill. But we can say with certainty that the United States
if we can keep hold The leps Lation to a
workable will have a new Clean Air Act on the books before the year is
test of cost- ellectiven, J Menk we wee have
out. //
Let me be clear: We're moving ahead on Clean Air
legislation because it is in America's interest. But, like so
many of the environmental issues that concern us -- we aren't the
only beneficiary of a better environment. 11 When it comes to
the environment, we are learning that local actions have global
consequences. For tauple one side benefit of exactine
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of our actions on the environment CO2
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our understanding of the critical question of global change. ranging
This conference will help in three ways.
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First, it provides an opportunity to sort out the science on
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the complex issue of global change. 11 To start with what we
know -- about the Earth, this home we share. About the factors -
- natural as well as man-made -- that cause our environment to
change. 11 And to work from what we know toward answers to the
many uncertainties that abound.
3
Perhaps it's not surprising when the subject is global
change that the debate often generates more heat than light. 11
Certainly, the apocalyptic pronouncements we've all heard don't
help us make policy. If they're meant to wake us up -- warn us
about the urgency of this issue -- well, we already know enough
to know we can't afford to bury our heads in the sand.
What we need is fact: the stuff science is made of. A
better understanding of the basic processes at work in our
environment -- and how they relate to one another. Better earth
system models that enable us to calculate the complex
interaction between man and our environment.
That's why I've asked Congress to approve a 60% increase in
our budget for the Global Change Research Program -- an
aggressive research program for which I've budgeted more than $1
billion dollars in 1991 -- to reduce the uncertainties
surrounding global change, and move us closer to the scientific
understanding we need. 11
The second way this gathering can advance our understanding
is to address the economic factor in environmental questions. We
know that cleaning up our environment costs money. We know it
means changes in the way we work and live. Here in the U.S.,
we're already making those changes -- whether it's moving forward
on clean air, phasing-out the use of CFCs, -or exploring
alternative sources of fuel and energy We're proud of what
we've done -- but we know we're far from finished.
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4
And yet as we move forward, all of us must make certain we
preserve our environmental well-being and our economic welfare.
This is in the interest of every nation here today -- in the
interests of the developed world and the developing world alike.
Let me focus for a moment on the developing world. In a
climate of poverty, or persistent economic decline, protecting
the environment becomes a far more difficult challenge. Cold
statistics don't begin to capture the harsh realities at stake.
Development doesn't mean just another point of GNP -- it's
meansured in human lives. An end to hunger. Longer life
expectancy. Lower infant mortality. 11 Not just quality of
life -- but life itself. Environmental policies that ignore the
economic factor -- the human factor -- are destined to fail.
But there is another reason to consider the economic factor
when the issue is the environment. There is no better ally in
service of our environment than strong economies. Economies that
make possible the increased efficiencies that enable us to make
environmental gains. Economies that generate the new
technologies that help us arrest and reverse the damage we have
done to our environment. 11
That brings me to the third way this conference contributes
to a net gain in knowledge: the fact that it provides us the
opportunity to form a partnership -- between nations, and across
the many disciplines represented here.
No subject is so vast as the study of global change -- the
ecology of the Earth. No subject offers greater challenges to
5
the understanding of man. Too often, these different disciplines
focusing on this question have worked in isolation -- with little
interchange of ideas, analysis, information.
This conference is a new departure -- a logical next step in
the study of global change -- because it brings together
environmentalists and economists, experts from the fields of
energy and science -- to search for common ground, to create a
clearing house through which we share the expertise each
discipline can bring to this difficult and demanding concern.
And this new partnership must bind nations as well. The
fact of the matter is, no one nation -- acting alone -- can
safeguard our Earth environment. Success requires a sense of
global stewardship -- an understanding that it is the Earth that
endures -- and that all of us are no more than tenants, in
temporary possession of a sacred trust. 11
For the next two days, you'll be grappling with questions of
global consequence. I thank all of you for joining us here --
for seeking to advance our current state of understanding on an
issue with such profound affect on every nation and every
individual for generations to come. 11 God bless you all.
# # #
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WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
DATE: 4/12/90
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY: 4/13/90 9:00 AM
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: WELCOMING REMARKS: WHITE HOUSE CONFERENCE
ON GLOBAL CHANGE
SUBJECT:
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
MCCLURE
SUNUNU
NEWMAN
SCOWCROFT
PORTER
DARMAN
ROGICH
BATES
UNTERMEYER
CARD
ROGERS
CICCONI
WINSTON
DEMAREST
BROMLEY
FITZWATER
DELAND
GRAY
BOSKIN
HAGIN
ADAIR, Doug
REMARKS:
Please forward any comments directly to Chriss Winston, Rm. 122,
x2930, no later than 9:00 AM, Friday, April 13, with a copy to
my office. Thank you.
RESPONSE:
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James W. Cicconi
Assistant to the President
and Deputy to the Chief of Staff
Ext. 2702
McGroarty/Dooley
April 12, 1990
1990 APR 12 Pil 12: 08
11:00 am
[change]
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: WHITE HOUSE CONFERENCE ON GLOBAL CHANGE
J.W. MARRIOTT
APRIL 17, 1990
X:XX A.M.
Thank you. [Introductory acknowledgements.] I'm pleased to
welcome this international field of high-level officials --
experts on the environment, economy, science and energy to the
White House Conference on Global Change.
Two months ago, I had the honor of addressing the
Intergovernmentall
the
International Panel on Climate Change -- a UN body doing such
we
Heat
vital work on this key environmental issue. sincerely I see this
well
primary of this confune
IPCC a to goal
conference making a key contribution to the process begun by the
IPCC
This gathering is the first to focus on a new dimension in
is the
the global change dialogue -- the first to explore the link
support
between scientific research and economic analysis in the study of
global change. // And of course, this conference is itself
another sign of the growing importance of the environment on the
international agenda.
Here in the United States, we've moved one step closer to a
great victory for the environment: the passage of a
significantly stronger Clean Air Act. Ten months ago, we renewed
momentum lost for 12 years. / This month, our clean air package
cleared the U.S. Senate, with overwhelming support. And just
2
last week, the House Committee on Energy and Commerce voted out
its own version of a clean air bill, 42-1 -- and a full, floor
I think the tought
vote in the House may come in early May. //
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The hard work isn't over. Both Houses -- and the White
Cleanduce et to the the ample no-regrets AirAct For the
House -- still have plenty to say on the shape of the final Clean
Air bill. But we can say with certainty that the United States
will have a new Clean Air Act on the books before the year is
gas will emissions. reduse
out. //
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legislation because it is in America's interest But, like so
many of the environmental issues that concern us -- we aren't the
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only beneficiary of a better environment. // When it comes to
the environment, we are learning that local actions have global
consequences.
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different meaning.
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me to invite all of you here. I want to speak this morning about
what we can do over the course of the next two days to advance
our understanding of the critical question of global change.
This conference will help in three ways.
First, it provides an opportunity to sort out the science on
the complex issue of global change. // To start with what we
know -- about the Earth, this home we share. About the factors -
- natural as well as man-made -- that cause our environment to
change. // And to work from what we know toward answers to the
many uncertainties that abound.
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3
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Perhaps it's not surprising when the subject is global
be hardfuith
h to
change that the debate often generates more heat than light.
Phill thiscround.
Certainly, the apocalyptic pronouncements we've all heard don't
help us make policy. If they're meant to wake us up -- warn us
about the urgency of this issue -- well, we already know enough
to know we can't afford to bury our heads in the sand.
What we need is fact: the stuff science is made of. A
better understanding of the basic processes at work in our
environment -- and how they relate to one another. Better earth
)
system models that Runnend enable us to calculate the complex
interaction between man- and our environment.
That's why I've asked Congress to approve a 60% increase in
our budget for the Global Change Research Program -- an
aggressive research program for which I've budgeted more than $1
billion dollars in 1991 -- to reduce the uncertainties
surrounding global change, and move us closer to the scientific
understanding we need. //
The second way this gathering can advance our understanding
is to address the economic factor in environmental questions. We
know that cleaning up our environment costs money. We know it
means changes in the way we work and live. Here in the U.S.,
we're already making those changes -- whether it's moving forward
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This is in the interest of every nation here today -- in the
interests of the developed world and the developing world alike.
Let me focus for a moment on the developing world. In a
climate of poverty, or persistent economic decline, protecting
the environment becomes a far more difficult challenge. Cold
statistics don't begin to capture the harsh realities at stake.
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Development doesn't mean just another point of GNP -- it's
meansured in human lives. An end to hunger. Longer life
expectancy. Lower infant mortality. 11 Not just quality of
life -- but life itself. Environmental policies that ignore the
economic factor -- the human factor -- are destined to fail.
But there is another reason to consider the economic factor
when the issue is the environment. There is no better ally in
service of our environment than strong economies. Economies that
make possible the increased efficiencies that enable us to make
environmental gains. Economies that generate the new
technologies that help us arrest and reverse the damage we have
done to our environment. 11
That brings me to the third way this conference contributes
to a net gain in knowledge: the fact that it provides us the
opportunity to form a partnership -- between nations, and across
the many disciplines represented here.
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the study of global change -- because it brings together
environmentalists and economists, experts from the fields of
energy and science -- to search for common ground, to create a
clearing house through which we share the expertise each
discipline can bring to this difficult and demanding concern.
And this new partnership must bind nations as well. The
fact of the matter is, no one nation -- acting alone -- can
safeguard our Earth environment. Success requires a sense of
global stewardship -- an understanding that it is the Earth that
endures -- and that all of us are no more than tenants, in
temporary possession of a sacred trust. 11
For the next two days, you'll be grappling with questions of
global consequence. I thank all of you for joining us here --
for seeking to advance our current state of understanding on an
issue with such profound affect on every nation and every
individual for generations to come. 11 God bless you all.
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J.W. MARRIOTT
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individual for generations to come. 11 God bless you all.
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PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: WHITE HOUSE CONFERENCE ON GLOBAL CHANGE
J.W. MARRIOTT
APRIL 17, 1990
X:XX A.M.
Thank you. [Introductory acknowledgements.] I'm pleased to
welcome this international field of high-level officials --
experts on the environment, economy, science and energy to the
White House Conference on Global Change.
Two months ago, I had the honor of addressing the
International Panel on Climate Change -- a UN body doing such
vital work on this key environmental issue. I see this
complemantly
conference making a key contribution to the process begun by the
IPCC. //
the oblisation to broader the
This gathering is the first to focus on a now dimension In of
the global change dialogue -- the first to explore the link
between scientific research and economic analysis in the study of
global change. // And of course, this conference is itself
another sign of the growing importance of the environment on the
international agenda.
Here in the United States, we've moved one step closer to a
great victory for the environment: the passage of a
significantly stronger Clean Air Act. Ten months ago, we renewed
inlegislatue stalmate
momentum lost for 12 years. / This month, our clean air package
cleared the U.S. Senate, with overwhelming support. And just
2
last week, the House Committee on Energy and Commerce voted out
with
its own version of a clean air bill, 42-1 -- and a full, floor
vote in the House may come in early May. //
The hard work isn't over. Both Houses -- and the White
House -- still have plenty to say on the shape of the final Clean
near
Air bill. But we can say with certainty that the United States
will have a new Clean Air Act on the books before the year is
out. //
Let me be clear: We're moving ahead on Clean Air
legislation because it is in America's interest. But, like so
many of the environmental issues that concern us -- we aren't the
only beneficiary of a better environment. // When it comes to
the environment, we are learning that local actions have global
consequences.
Understanding the effects of our actions on the environment
is the first step to a sound ecology -- and the subject that led
me to invite all of you here. I want to speak this morning about
what we can do over the course of the next two days to advance
our understanding of the critical question of global change.
This conference will help in three ways.
help
First, it provides an opportunity to sort out the science on
the complex issue of global change. // To start with what we
know -- about the Earth, this home we share. About the factors -
- natural as well as man-made -- that cause our environment to
change. // And to work from what we know toward answers to the
many uncertainties that abound.
3
Perhaps it's not surprising when the subject is global
change that the debate often generates more heat than light. //
Certainly, the apocalyptic pronouncements we've all heard don't
redo
help us make policy. If they're meant to wake us up warn us
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about the urgency of this issue -- well, we already know enough
to know we can't afford to bury our heads in the sand.
What we need is fact: the stuff science is made of.
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environment. and how they relate to one another. Better earth
system models -- that enable us to calculate the complex
interaction between man and our environment.
That's why I've asked Congress to approve a 60% increase in
our budget for the Global Change Research Program -- an
aggressive research program for which I've budgeted more than $1
billion dollars in 1991 -- to reduce the uncertainties
surrounding global change, and move us closer to the scientific
understanding we need H if.we are to make decisions
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means changes in the way we work and live. Here in the U.S.,
we're already making those changes -- whether it's moving forward
on clean air, phasing-out the use of CFCs, or exploring
alternative sources of fuel and energy. We're proud of what
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And yet as we move forward, all of us must make certain we
preserve our environmental well-being and our economic welfare.
This is in the interest of every nation here today -- in the
interests of the developed world and the developing world alike.
Let me focus for a moment on the developing world. In a
climate of poverty, or persistent economic decline, protecting
the environment becomes a far more difficult challenge. Cold
statistics don't begin to capture the harsh realities at stake.
Development doesn't mean just another point of GNP -- it's
meansured in human lives. An end to hunger. Longer life
expectancy. Lower infant mortality. 11 Not just quality of
life -- but life itself. Environmental policies that ignore the
economic factor -- the human factor -- are destined to fail.
But there is another reason to consider the economic factor
when the issue is the environment. There is no better ally in
service of our environment than strong economies. Economies that
make possible the increased efficiencies that enable us to make
environmental gains. Economies that generate the new
technologies that help us arrest and reverse the damage we have
done to our environment. //
That brings me to the third way this conference contributes
to a net gain in knowledge: the fact that it provides us the
opportunity to form a partnership -- between nations, and across
the many disciplines represented here.
No subject is so vast as the study of global change -- the
ecology of the Earth. No subject offers greater challenges to
5
the understanding of man. Too often, these different disciplines
focusing on this question have worked in isolation -- with little
interchange of ideas, analysis, information.
This conference is a new departure -- a logical next step in
the study of global change -- because it brings together
environmentalists and economists, experts from the fields of
energy and science -- to search for common ground, to create a
clearing house through which we share the expertise each
discipline can bring to this difficult and demanding concern.
And this new partnership must bind nations as well. The
fact of the matter is, no one nation -- acting alone -- can
safeguard our Earth environment. Success requires a sense of
global stewardship -- an understanding that it is the Earth that
endures -- and that all of us are no more than tenants, in
temporary possession of a sacred trust. 11
For the next two days, you'll be grappling with questions of
global consequence. I thank all of you for joining us here --
for seeking to advance our current state of understanding on an
issue with such profound affect on every nation and every
individual for generations to come. // God bless you all.
# # #
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
April 13, 1990
MEMORANDUM FOR CHRISS WINSTON
FROM:
EDWARD GOLDSTEIN Esg
THROUGH:
ROGER PORTER
TERESA GORMAN
00 0 MAR 13 MAR 13 P12: 37
SUBJECT:
Draft Welcoming Remarks for White House
Conference on Global Climate Change
Thank you for providing for our review a copy of your
draft Presidential remarks for the upcoming White House
Conference on Global Climate Change. The speech properly
highlights the President's positive environmental record and
lays out in logical form how nations need to expand their
understanding of global climate change from both scientific and
economic perspectives. We would suggest that the speech expand
on the President's welcome to the audience. It might be
appropriate, for example, for the President to single out some
of the individual conference leaders for praise. We have a few
other comments on the substance of the draft which are
presented below:
O
pg. 2, para. 2, line 3 "But we can say with certainty
that the United States will have a new Clean Air Act on
the books before the year is out."
There is a possibility that the final version of the Clean
Air Act would be unacceptable to the Administration. We
suggest that the wording be changed to the following:
"We certainly hope that the United States will have a new
Clean Air Act on the books before the year is out."
pg. 2, para. 3, line 5 "we are learning that local
actions can have global consequences."
The point here is many local actions do not have global
consequences.
pg. 3, para. 4, line 7 Following the clause on phasing-
out the use of CFCs, we suggest adding the following:
"encouraging energy conservation, or exploring alternate
sources of fuel and energy."
CLOSE HOLD
Document No. 132159SS
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
DATE: 4/12/90
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY:
4/13/90 9:00 AM
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: WELCOMING REMARKS: WHITE HOUSE CONFERENCE
ON GLOBAL CHANGE
SUBJECT:
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
MCCLURE
SUNUNU
NEWMAN
SCOWCROFT
PORTER
DARMAN
ROGICH
BATES
UNTERMEYER
CARD
ROGERS
CICCONI
WINSTON
DEMAREST
BROMLEY
FITZWATER
DELAND
GRAY
BOSKIN
HAGIN
ADAIR, Doug
REMARKS:
Please forward any comments directly to Chriss Winston, Rm. 122,
x2930, no later than 9:00 AM, Friday, April 13, with a copy to
my office. Thank you.
RESPONSE:
OK.R
CLOSE HOLD
Ejod.
52 : 11v El MAR 06
James W. Cicconi
Assistant to the President
and Deputy to the Chief of Staff
Ext. 2702
McGroarty/Dooley
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1990 APR 12 PM 12: 08
11:00 am
[change]
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: WHITE HOUSE CONFERENCE ON GLOBAL CHANGE
J.W. MARRIOTT
APRIL 17, 1990
X:XX A.M.
Thank you. [Introductory acknowledgements.] I'm pleased to
welcome this international field of high-level officials --
experts on the environment, economy, science and energy to the
White House Conference on Global Change.
Two months ago, I had the honor of addressing the
International Panel on Climate Change -- a UN body doing such
vital work on this key environmental issue. I see this
conference making a key contribution to the process begun by the
IPCC. 11
This gathering is the first to focus on a new dimension in
the global change dialogue -- the first to explore the link
between scientific research and economic analysis in the study of
global change. // And of course, this conference is itself
another sign of the growing importance of the environment on the
international agenda.
Here in the United States, we've moved one step closer to a
great victory for the environment: the passage of a
significantly stronger Clean Air Act. Ten months ago, we renewed
momentum lost for 12 years. / This month, our clean air package
cleared the U.S. Senate, with overwhelming support. And just
2
last week, the House Committee on Energy and Commerce voted out
its own version of a clean air bill, 42-1 -- and a full, floor
vote in the House may come in early May. 11
The hard work isn't over. Both Houses -- and the White
House -- still have plenty to say on the shape of the final Clean
Air bill. But we can say with certainty that the United States
will have a new Clean Air Act on the books before the year is
out. //
Let me be clear: We're moving ahead on Clean Air
legislation because it is in America's interest. But, like so
many of the environmental issues that concern us -- we aren't the
only beneficiary of a better environment. // When it comes to
the environment, we are learning that local actions have global
consequences.
Understanding the effects of our actions on the environment
is the first step to a sound ecology -- and the subject that led
me to invite all of you here. I want to speak this morning about
what we can do over the course of the next two days to advance
our understanding of the critical question of global change.
This conference will help in three ways.
First, it provides an opportunity to sort out the science on
the complex issue of global change. // To start with what we
know -- about the Earth, this home we share. About the factors -
- natural as well as man-made -- that cause our environment to
change. // And to work from what we know toward answers to the
many uncertainties that abound.
3
Perhaps it's not surprising when the subject is global
change that the debate often generates more heat than light. //
Certainly, the apocalyptic pronouncements we've all heard don't
help us make policy. If they're meant to wake us up -- warn us
about the urgency of this issue -- well, we already know enough
to know we can't afford to bury our heads in the sand.
What we need is fact: the stuff science is made of. A
better understanding of the basic processes at work in our
environment -- and how they relate to one another. Better earth
system models -- that enable us to calculate the complex
interaction between man and our environment.
That's why I've asked Congress to approve a 60% increase in
our budget for the Global Change Research Program -- an
aggressive research program for which I've budgeted more than $1
billion dollars in 1991 -- to reduce the uncertainties
surrounding global change, and move us closer to the scientific
understanding we need. //
The second way this gathering can advance our understanding
is to address the economic factor in environmental questions. We
know that cleaning up our environment costs money. We know it
means changes in the way we work and live. Here in the U.S.,
we're already making those changes -- whether it's moving forward
on clean air, phasing-out the use of CFCs, or exploring
alternative sources of fuel and energy. We're proud of what
we've done -- but we know we're far from finished.
4
And yet as we move forward, all of us must make certain we
preserve our environmental well-being and our economic welfare.
This is in the interest of every nation here today -- in the
interests of the developed world and the developing world alike.
Let me focus for a moment on the developing world. In a
climate of poverty, or persistent economic decline, protecting
the environment becomes a far more difficult challenge. Cold
statistics don't begin to capture the harsh realities at stake.
Development doesn't mean just another point of GNP -- it's
meansured in human lives. An end to hunger. Longer life
expectancy. Lower infant mortality. 11 Not just quality of
life -- but life itself. Environmental policies that ignore the
economic factor -- the human factor -- are destined to fail.
But there is another reason to consider the economic factor
when the issue is the environment. There is no better ally in
service of our environment than strong economies. Economies that
make possible the increased efficiencies that enable us to make
environmental gains. Economies that generate the new
technologies that help us arrest and reverse the damage we have
done to our environment. //
That brings me to the third way this conference contributes
to a net gain in knowledge: the fact that it provides us the
opportunity to form a partnership -- between nations, and across
the many disciplines represented here.
No subject is so vast as the study of global change -- the
ecology of the Earth. No subject offers greater challenges to
5
the understanding of man. Too often, these different disciplines
focusing on this question have worked in isolation -- with little
interchange of ideas, analysis, information.
This conference is a new departure -- a logical next step in
the study of global change -- because it brings together
environmentalists and economists, experts from the fields of
energy and science -- to search for common ground, to create a
clearing house through which we share the expertise each
discipline can bring to this difficult and demanding concern.
And this new partnership must bind nations as well. The
fact of the matter is, no one nation -- acting alone -- can
safeguard our Earth environment. Success requires a sense of
global stewardship -- an understanding that it is the Earth that
endures -- and that all of us are no more than tenants, in
temporary possession of a sacred trust. 11
For the next two days, you'll be grappling with questions of
global consequence. I thank all of you for joining us here --
for seeking to advance our current state of understanding on an
issue with such profound affect on every nation and every
individual for generations to come. 11 God bless you all.
# # #
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
I 15
Counsels ofc.
1st pg, 1ˢᵗ P
"experts on the environment
economy, science
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to economics
CLOSE HOLD
Document No. 132159SS
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
DATE: 4/12/90
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY:
4/13/90 9:00 AM
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: WELCOMING REMARKS: WHITE HOUSE CONFERENCE
ON GLOBAL CHANGE
SUBJECT:
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
MCCLURE
SUNUNU
NEWMAN
SCOWCROFT
PORTER
DARMAN
ROGICH
BATES
UNTERMEYER
CARD
ROGERS
CICCONI
WINSTON
DEMAREST
BROMLEY
FITZWATER
DELAND
GRAY
BOSKIN
HAGIN
ADAIR, Doug
REMARKS: Please forward any comments directly to Chriss Winston, Rm. 122,
x2930, no later than 9:00 AM, Friday, April 13, with a copy to
my office. Thank you.
RESPONSE:
Bob Grady will call in comments
X4844 CLOSE HOLD
91 : 1d EI MAR 06
James W. Cicconi
Assistant to the President
and Deputy to the Chief of Staff
Ext. 2702
McGroarty/Dooley
April 12, 1990
1990 APR 12 PM 12: 08
11:00 am
[change]
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: WHITE HOUSE CONFERENCE ON GLOBAL CHANGE
J.W. MARRIOTT
APRIL 17, 1990
X:XX A.M.
Thank you. [Introductory acknowledgements.] I'm pleased to
welcome this international field of high-level officials --
experts on the environment, economy, science and energy to the
White House Conference on Global Change.
Two months ago, I had the honor of addressing the
International Panel on Climate Change -- a UN body doing such
vital work on this key environmental issue. I see this
conference making a key contribution to the process begun by the
IPCC. 11
This gathering is the first to focus on a new dimension in
the global change dialogue -- the first to explore the link
between scientific research and economic analysis in the study of
global change. 11 And of course, this conference is itself
another sign of the growing importance of the environment on the
international agenda.
Here in the United States, we've moved one step closer to a
great victory for the environment: the passage of a
significantly stronger Clean Air Act. Ten months ago, we renewed
momentum lost for 12 years. / This month, our clean air package
cleared the U.S. Senate, with overwhelming support. And just
2
last week, the House Committee on Energy and Commerce voted out
its own version of a clean air bill, 42-1 -- and a full, floor
vote in the House may come in early May. //
The hard work isn't over. Both Houses -- and the White
House -- still have plenty to say on the shape of the final Clean
Air bill. But we can say with certainty that the United States
will have a new Clean Air Act on the books before the year is
out. //
Let me be clear: We're moving ahead on Clean Air
legislation because it is in America's interest. But, like so
many of the environmental issues that concern us -- we aren't the
only beneficiary of a better environment. // When it comes to
the environment, we are learning that local actions have global
consequences.
Understanding the effects of our actions on the environment
is the first step to a sound ecology -- and the subject that led
me to invite all of you here. I want to speak this morning about
what we can do over the course of the next two days to advance
our understanding of the critical question of global change.
This conference will help in three ways.
First, it provides an opportunity to sort out the science on
the complex issue of global change. // To start with what we
know -- about the Earth, this home we share. About the factors -
- natural as well as man-made -- that cause our environment to
change. // And to work from what we know toward answers to the
many uncertainties that abound.
3
Perhaps it's not surprising when the subject is global
change that the debate often generates more heat than light. //
Certainly, the apocalyptic pronouncements we've all heard don't
help us make policy. If they're meant to wake us up -- warn us
about the urgency of this issue -- well, we already know enough
to know we can't afford to bury our heads in the sand.
What we need is fact: the stuff science is made of. A
better understanding of the basic processes at work in our
environment -- and how they relate to one another. Better earth
system models -- that enable us to calculate the complex
interaction between man and our environment.
That's why I've asked Congress to approve a 60% increase in
our budget for the Global Change Research Program -- an
aggressive research program for which I've budgeted more than $1
billion dollars in 1991 -- to reduce the uncertainties
surrounding global change, and move us closer to the scientific
understanding we need. //
The second way this gathering can advance our understanding
is to address the economic factor in environmental questions. We
know that cleaning up our environment costs money. We know it
means changes in the way we work and live. Here in the U.S.,
we're already making those changes -- whether it's moving forward
on clean air, phasing-out the use of CFCs, or exploring
alternative sources of fuel and energy. We're proud of what
we've done -- but we know we're far from finished.
4
And yet as we move forward, all of us must make certain we
preserve our environmental well-being and our economic welfare.
This is in the interest of every nation here today -- in the
interests of the developed world and the developing world alike.
Let me focus for a moment on the developing world. In a
climate of poverty, or persistent economic decline, protecting
the environment becomes a far more difficult challenge. Cold
statistics don't begin to capture the harsh realities at stake.
Development doesn't mean just another point of GNP -- it's
meansured in human lives. An end to hunger. Longer life
expectancy. Lower infant mortality. 11 Not just quality of
life -- but life itself. Environmental policies that ignore the
economic factor -- the human factor -- are destined to fail.
But there is another reason to consider the economic factor
when the issue is the environment. There is no better ally in
service of our environment than strong economies. Economies that
make possible the increased efficiencies that enable us to make
environmental gains. Economies that generate the new
technologies that help us arrest and reverse the damage we have
done to our environment. //
That brings me to the third way this conference contributes
to a net gain in knowledge: the fact that it provides us the
opportunity to form a partnership -- between nations, and across
the many disciplines represented here.
No subject is so vast as the study of global change -- the
ecology of the Earth. No subject offers greater challenges to
5
the understanding of man. Too often, these different disciplines
focusing on this question have worked in isolation -- with little
interchange of ideas, analysis, information.
This conference is a new departure -- a logical next step in
the study of global change -- because it brings together
environmentalists and economists, experts from the fields of
energy and science -- to search for common ground, to create a
clearing house through which we share the expertise each
discipline can bring to this difficult and demanding concern.
And this new partnership must bind nations as well. The
fact of the matter is, no one nation -- acting alone -- can
safeguard our Earth environment. Success requires a sense of
global stewardship -- an understanding that it is the Earth that
endures -- and that all of us are no more than tenants, in
temporary possession of a sacred trust. 11
For the next two days, you'll be grappling with questions of
global consequence. I thank all of you for joining us here --
for seeking to advance our current state of understanding on an
issue with such profound affect on every nation and every
individual for generations to come. // God bless you all.
# # #
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DATE: 4/12/90
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ON GLOBAL CHANGE
SUBJECT:
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SUNUNU
NEWMAN
SCOWCROFT
PORTER
DARMAN
ROGICH
BATES
UNTERMEYER
CARD
ROGERS
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HAGIN
ADAIR, Doug
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James W. Cicconi
Assistant to the President
and Deputy to the Chief of Staff
Ext. 2702
McGroarty/Dooley
April 12, 1990
1990 APR 12 PM 12: 08
11:00 am
[change]
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: WHITE HOUSE CONFERENCE ON GLOBAL CHANGE
J.W. MARRIOTT
APRIL 17, 1990
X:XX A.M.
Thank you. [Introductory acknowledgements.] I'm pleased to
welcome this international field of high-level officials --
experts on the environment, economy, science and energy to the
White House Conference on Global Change.
Two months ago, I had the honor of addressing the
International Panel on Climate Change -- a UN body doing such
vital work on this key environmental issue. I see this
conference making a key contribution to the process begun by the
IPCC. //
This gathering is the first to focus on a new dimension in
the global change dialogue -- the first to explore the link
between scientific research and economic analysis in the study of
global change. // And of course, this conference is itself
another sign of the growing importance of the environment on the
international agenda.
Here in the United States, we've moved one step closer to a
great victory for the environment: the passage of a
significantly stronger Clean Air Act. Ten months ago, we renewed
momentum lost for 12 years. / This month, our clean air package
cleared the U.S. Senate, with overwhelming support. And just
2
last week, the House Committee on Energy and Commerce voted out
its own version of a clean air bill, 42-1 -- and a full, floor
vote in the House may come in early May. 11
The hard work isn't over. Both Houses -- and the White
House -- still have plenty to say on the shape of the final Clean
Air bill. But we can say with certainty that the United States
will have a new Clean Air Act on the books before the year is
(out
11
Let me be clear: We're moving ahead on Clean Air
legislation because it is in America's interest. But, like so
many of the environmental issues that concern us -- we aren't the
only beneficiary of a better environment. // When it comes to
the environment, we are learning that local actions have global
consequences.
Understanding the effects of our actions on the environment
is the first step to a sound ecology -- and the subject that led
me to invite all of you here. I want to speak this morning about
what we can do over the course of the next two days to advance
our understanding of the critical question of global change.
This conference will help in three ways.
First, it provides an opportunity to sort out the science on
the complex issue of global change. // To start with what we
know -- about the Earth, this home we share. About the factors -
- natural as well as man-made -- that cause our environment to
change. // And to work from what we know toward answers to the
many uncertainties that abound.
3
Perhaps it's not surprising when the subject is global
change that the debate often generates more heat than light. //
Certainly, the apocalyptic pronouncements we've all heard don't
help us make policy. If they're meant to wake us up -- warn us
about understand the urgency of this issue -- well, we already know enough
to know we can't afford to bury our heads in the sand.
What we need is fact: the stuff science is made of. A
better understanding of the basic processes at work in our
environment -- and how they relate to one another. Better earth
system models -- that enable us to calculate the complex
interaction between man and our environment.
That's why I've asked Congress to approve a 60% increase in
our budget for the Global Change Research Program -- an
aggressive research program for which we ve budgeted more than $1
billion dollars in 1991 -- to reduce the uncertainties
surrounding global change, and move us closer to the scientific
understanding we need. //
The second way this gathering can advance our understanding
is to address the economic factor in environmental questions. We
know that cleaning up our environment costs money. We know it
means changes in the way we work and live. Here in the U.S.,
we're already making those changes -- whether it's moving forward
on clean air, phasing-out the use of CFCs, or exploring
alternative sources of fuel and energy. We're proud of what
we've done -- but we know we're far from finished.
4
And yet as we move forward, all of us must make certain we
preserve our environmental well-being and our economic welfare.
This is in the interest of every nation here today -- in the
interests of the developed world and the developing world alike.
Let me focus for a moment on the developing world. In a
climate of poverty, or persistent economic decline, protecting
the environment becomes a far more difficult challenge. Cold
statistics don't begin to capture the harsh realities at stake.
Development doesn't mean just another point of GNP -- it's
meansured in human lives. An end to hunger. Longer life
expectancy. Lower infant mortality. 11 Not just quality of
life -- but life itself. Environmental policies that ignore the
economic factor -- the human factor -- are destined to fail.
But there is another reason to consider the economic factor
when the issue is the environment. There is no better ally in
service of our environment than strong economies. Economies that
make possible the increased efficiencies that enable us to make
environmental gains. Economies that generate the new
technologies that help us arrest and reverse the damage we have
done to our environment. //
That brings me to the third way this conference contributes
to a net gain in knowledge: the fact that it provides us the
opportunity to form a partnership -- between nations, and across
the many disciplines represented here.
No subject is so vast as the study of global change -- the
ecology of the Earth. No subject offers greater challenges to
5
the understanding of man. Too often, these different disciplines
focusing on this question have worked in isolation -- with little
interchange of ideas, analysis, information.
This conference is a new departure -- a logical next step in
the study of global change -- because it brings together
environmentalists and economists, experts from the fields of
energy and science -- to search for common ground, to create a
clearing house through which we share the expertise each
discipline can bring to this difficult and demanding concern.
And this new partnership must bind nations as well. The
fact of the matter is, no one nation -- acting alone -- can
safeguard our Earth environment. Success requires a sense of
global stewardship -- an understanding that it is the Earth that
endures -- and that all of us are no more than tenants, in
temporary possession of a sacred trust. 11
For the next two days, you'll be grappling with questions of
global consequence. I thank all of you for joining us here --
for seeking to advance our current state of understanding on an
issue with such profound affect on every nation and every
individual for generations to come. 11 God bless you all.
# # #
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WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
APR 12 1990
CE @
DATE: 4/12/90
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY:
4/13/90 9:00 AM
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: WELCOMING REMARKS: WHITE HOUSE CONFERENCE
SUBJECT:
ON GLOBAL CHANGE
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
MCCLURE
SUNUNU
NEWMAN
SCOWCROFT
PORTER
DARMAN
ROGICH
BATES
UNTERMEYER
CARD
ROGERS
CICCONI
WINSTON
DEMAREST
BROMLEY
FITZWATER
DELAND
GRAY
BOSKIN
HAGIN
ADAIR, Doug
REMARKS:
Please forward any comments directly to Chriss Winston, Rm. 122,
x2930, no later than 9:00 AM, Friday, April 13, with a copy to
my office. Thank you.
RESPONSE:
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James W. Cicconi
Assistant to the President
and Deputy to the Chief of Staff
Ext. 2702
McGroarty/Dooley
April 12, 1990
1999 APR 12 PH 12: 08
11:00 am
[change]
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: WHITE HOUSE CONFERENCE ON GLOBAL CHANGE
J.W. MARRIOTT
APRIL 17, 1990
X:XX A.M.
Thank you. [Introductory acknowledgements.] I'm pleased to
welcome this international field of high-level officials --
experts on the environment, economy, science and energy to the
White House Conference on Global Change.
Two months ago, I had the honor of addressing the
International Panel on Climate Change -- a UN body doing such
vital work on this key environmental issue. I see this
conference Helpis making a key contribution to the process begun by the
IPCC. //
helping to accelerate some the very IPCC's agenda of searching for
understanding of acrifical questions.
This gathering is the first to focus on a new dimension in
the global change dialogue -- the first to explore the link
between scientific research and economic analysis in the study of
global change. 11 And of course, this conference is itself
another sign of the growing importance of the environment on the
international agenda.
Here in the United States, we've moved one step closer to a
great victory for the environment: the passage of a
significantly stronger Clean Air Act. Ten months ago, we renewed
momentum lost for 12 years. / This month, our clean air package
cleared the U.S. Senate, with overwhelming support. And just
This comment serves to reinfore the primacy of IPCC in this process and
(2) head of criticism of "discussion/study as a means to delay"
2
last week, the House Committee on Energy and Commerce voted out
its own version of a clean air bill, 42-1 -- and a full, floor
vote in the House may come in early May. //
The hard work isn't over. Both Houses -- and the White
House -- still have plenty to say on the shape of the final Clean
Air bill. But we can say with certainty that the United States
will have a new Clean Air Act on the books before the year is
out. //
Let me be clear: We're moving ahead on Clean Air
legislation because it is in America's interest. But, like so
many of the environmental issues that concern us -- we aren't the
only beneficiary of a better environment. // When it comes to
the environment, we are learning that local actions have global
consequences.
Understanding the effects of our actions on the environment
environment
is the first step to a sound ecology J and the subject that led
me to invite all of you here. I want to speak this morning about
what we can do over the course of the next two days to advance
our understanding of the critical question of global change.
This conference will help in three ways.
First, it provides an opportunity to sort out the science on
the complex issue of global change. // To start with what we
know -- about the Earth, this home we share. About the factors -
- natural as well as man-made -- that cause our environment to
change. // And to work from what we know toward answers to the
many uncertainties that abound.
Tone down the implication that we act onlyfrom self- interest.
More appropriate terminology for technical yroup.
3
Perhaps it's not surprising when the subject is global
change that the debate often generates more heat than light. 11
Certainly, the apocalyptic pronouncements we've all heard don't
help us make policy. If they're meant to wake us up -- warn us
they have succeeded.
about the urgency of this issue -- well,^ we ANGHAN Hadw effection
## know we can't afford to bury our heads in the sand.
are
S
What we need 10 fact: the stuff science is made of. A
better understanding of the basic processes at work in our
environment -- and how they relate to one another. Better earth
system models -- that enable us to calculate the complex
interaction between man and our environment.
That's why I've asked Congress to approve a 60% increase in
our budget for the Global Change Research Program -- an
aggressive research program for which I've budgeted more than $1
billion dollars in 1991 -- to reduce the uncertainties
surrounding global change, and move us closer to the scientific
understanding we need. //
The second way this gathering can advance our understanding
is to address the economic factor in environmental questions.
lie
know that cleaning up our environment costs money
1
We know it
means changes in the way we work and live. Here in the U.S.,
we re already making those changes whether it's moving forward
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on clean air, phasing-out the use of CFCs, or exploring
alternative sources of fuel and energy.
We're proud of what
we've done -- but we know we're far from finished.
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4
And yet as we move forward, all of us must make certain we
,ow that
preserve our environmental well-being and our economic welfare. Weknow
these are not separate concerns - - they are two sides of one coin. Recognizing
This foet is in the interest of every nation here today -- in the
interests of the developed world and the developing world alike.
Let me focus for a moment on the developing world. In a
climate of poverty, or persistent economic decline, protecting
the environment becomes a far more difficult challenge. Cold
statistics don't begin to capture the harsh realities at stake.
Development doesn't mean just another point of GNP -- it's
meansured in human lives. An end to hunger. Longer life
expectancy. Lower infant mortality. // quality of
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life -- but life itself. Environmental policies that ignore the
economic factor A the human factor and are destined to fail.
ignoreign thismost
But there is another reason to consider the economic factor
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when the issue is the environment. A There is no better ally in
service of our environment than strong economies. Economies that
make possible the increased efficiencies that enable us to make
environmental gains. Economies that generate the new
technologies that help us arrest and reverse the damage we have
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That brings me to the third way this conference contributes
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opportunity to form a partnership -- between nations, and across
the many disciplines represented here.
No subject is so vast as the study of global change -- the
ecology of the Earth. No subject offers greater challenges to
Economies that allowus to make vital
investments in our common future.
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the understanding of man. Too often, these different disciplines
focusing on this question have worked in isolation -- with little
interchange of ideas, analysis, information.
This conference is a new departure -- a logical next step in
the study of global change -- because it brings together for the first timer
at a high level
and in a
environmentalists and economists, experts from the fields of
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energy and science -- to search for common ground, to create
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the opportunity to
clearing house through which we share the expertise each
discipline can bring to this difficult and demanding concern.
And this new partnership must bind nations as well. The
fact of the matter is, no one nation -- acting alone -- can
safeguard our Earth environment. Success requires a sense of
global stewardship -- an understanding that it is the Earth that
endures -- and that all of us are no more than tenants, in
temporary possession of a sacred trust. 11
For the next two days, you'll be grappling with questions of
global consequence. I thank all of you for joining us here --
for seeking to advance our current state of understanding on an
issue with such profound affect on every nation and every
individual for generations to come. // God bless you all.
# # #
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PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: WELCOMING REMARKS: WHITE HOUSE CONFERENCE
SUBJECT:
ON GLOBAL CHANGE
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
MCCLURE
SUNUNU
NEWMAN
SCOWCROFT
PORTER
DARMAN
ROGICH
BATES
UNTERMEYER
CARD
ROGERS
CICCONI
WINSTON
DEMAREST
BROMLEY
FITZWATER
DELAND
GRAY
BOSKIN
HAGIN
ADAIR, Doug
REMARKS:
Please forward any comments directly to Chriss Winston, Rm. 122,
x2930, no later than 9:00 AM, Friday, April 13, with a copy to
my office. Thank you.
RESPONSE:
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James W. Cicconi
Assistant to the President
and Deputy to the Chief of Staff
Ext. 2702
McGroarty/Dooley
April 12, 1990
1999 APR 12 PM 12: 08
11:00 am
[change]
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: WHITE HOUSE CONFERENCE ON GLOBAL CHANGE
J.W. MARRIOTT
APRIL 17, 1990
X:XX A.M.
Thank you. [Introductory acknowledgements.] I'm pleased to
welcome this international field of high-level officials --
experts on the environment, economy, science and energy to the
White House Conference on Global Change.
Two months ago, I had the honor of addressing the
International Panel on Climate Change -- a UN body doing such
vital work on this key environmental issue. I see this
conference making & key contribution to the prosess begun by the
IPCC. 11
helping to accelerate somewary the IPCC's agenda of searching for
understanding of acritical questions.
This gathering is the first to focus on a new dimension in
the global change dialogue -- the first to explore the link
between scientific research and economic analysis in the study of
global change. 11 And of course, this conference is itself
another sign of the growing importance of the environment on the
international agenda.
Here in the United States, we've moved one step closer to a
great victory for the environment: the passage of a
significantly stronger Clean Air Act. Ten months ago, we renewed
momentum lost for 12 years. / This month, our clean air package
cleared the U.S. Senate, with overwhelming support. And just
This comment serves to "reinfore the primacy of Ipec in this process and
(2) head of criticism of "diseussion/study as a means to detay"
2
last week, the House Committee on Energy and Commerce voted out
its own version of a clean air bill, 42-1 -- and a full, floor
vote in the House may come in early May. 11
The hard work isn't over. Both Houses -- and the White
House -- still have plenty to say on the shape of the final Clean
Air bill. But we can say with certainty that the United States
will have a new Clean Air Act on the books before the year is
out. 11
We're moving ahead on Clean Air
legislation because it is in America's interest. But, like so
many of the environmental issues that concern us -- we aren't the
only beneficiary of a better environment. 11 When it comes to
the environment, we are learning that local actions have global
consequences.
Understanding the effects of our actions on the environment
environment
is the first step to a sound ecology -- and the subject that led
me to invite all of you here. I want to speak this morning about
what we can do over the course of the next two days to advance
our understanding of the critical question of global change.
This conference will help in three ways.
First, it provides an opportunity to sort out the science on
the complex issue of global change. 11 To start with what we
know -- about the Earth, this home we share. About the factors -
- natural as well as man-made -- that cause our environment to
change. 11 And to work from what we know toward answers to the
many uncertainties that abound.
Tone down the implication that we act onlyfious self- interest.
More appropriate terminology for technical group.
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3
Perhaps it's not surprising when the subject is global
change that the debate often generates more heat than light. //
Certainly, the apocalyptic pronouncements we've all heard don't
help us make policy. If they're meant to wake us up -- warn us
Hary have succeeded.
about the urgency of this issue -- well,A we ANAMAN waw -
## know we can't afford to bury our heads in the sand.
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What we need LE fact: the stuff science is made of. A
better understanding of the basic processes at work in our
environment -- and how they relate to one another. Better earth
system models -- that enable us to calculate the complex
interaction between man and our environment.
That's why I've asked Congress to approve a 60% increase in
our budget for the Global Change Research Program -- an
aggressive research program for which I've budgeted more than $1
billion dollars in 1991 -- to reduce the uncertainties
surrounding global change, and move us closer to the scientific
understanding we need. 11
The second way this gathering can advance our understanding
is to address the economic factor in environmental questions.
We
know that cleaning up our environment costs money
/
We know it
means changes in the way we work and live. Here in the U.S.
we re already making those changes -- whether it's moving forward
*
on clean air, phasing-out the use of CFCs, or exploring
alternative sources of fuel and energy.
He've proud of what
we've done -- but we know we're far from finished.
not necessary to criticize quite so hersbly
Revised 4 on seporate sheet
4
And yet as we move forward, all of us must make certain we
row that
preserve our environmental well-being and our economic welfare. Weknow
these are not separate concerns - - they are two sides of one coin. Recognizing
This foct is in the interest of every nation here today -- in the
interests of the developed world and the developing world alike.
Let me focus for a moment on the developing world. In a
climate of poverty, or persistent economic decline, protecting
the environment becomes a far more difficult challenge. Cold
statistics don't begin to capture the harsh realities at stake.
Development doesn't mean just another point of GNP -- it's
meansured in human lives. An end to hunger. Longer life
expectancy. Lower infant mortality. 11 quality of
and often
life -- but life itself. Environmental policies that ignore the
economic factor human factor -- and are destined to fail.
ignore thismost
But there is another reason to consider the economic factor
Economic policies that ignore the enu ironment will
when the issue is the environment. There is no better ally in
service of our environment than strong economies. Economies that
make possible the increased efficiencies that enable us to make
environmental gains. Economies that generate the new
technologies that help us arrest and reverse the damage we have
as
the very basis for both life and
done to our environment.
folore
That brings me to the third way this conference contributes
to a net gain in knowledge: the fact that it provides us the
opportunity to form a partnership -- between nations, and across
the many disciplines represented here.
No subject is so vast as the study of global change -- the
ecology of the Earth. No subject offers greater challenges to
Economies that allow to make vital
investments in our common future.
5
the understanding of man. Too often, these different disciplines
focusing on this question have worked in isolation -- with little
interchange of ideas. analysis, information.
This conference is a new departure -- a logical next step in
the study of global change -- because it brings together for the first time.
at a high level
and in a
,environmentalists and economists, experts from the fields of
working format-
energy and science -- to search for common ground, to create
the opportunity to
clearing house through which we share the expertise each
discipline can bring to this difficult and demanding concern.
And this new partnership must bind nations as well. The
fact of the matter is, no one nation -- acting alone -- can
safeguard our Earth environment. Success requires a sense of
global stewardship -- an understanding that it is the Barth that
endures -- and that all of us are no more than tenants, in
temporary possession of & sacred trust. 11
For the next two days, you'll be grappling with questions of
global consequence. I thank all of you for joining us here --
for seeking to advance our current state of understanding on an
issue with such profound affect on every nation and every
individual for generations to come. 11 God bless you all.
# # #
CLOSE HOLD
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WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
2869
DATE: 4/12/90
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY:
4/13/90 9:00 AM
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: WELCOMING REMARKS: WHITE HOUSE CONFERENCE
ON GLOBAL CHANGE
SUBJECT:
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
MCCLURE
SUNUNU
NEWMAN
SCOWCROFT
PORTER
DARMAN
ROGICH
BATES
UNTERMEYER
CARD
ROGERS
CICCONI
WINSTON
DEMAREST
BROMLEY
FITZWATER
DELAND
GRAY
BOSKIN
HAGIN
ADAIR, Doug
REMARKS: Please forward any comments directly to Chriss Winston, Rm. 122,
x2930, no later than 9:00 AM, Friday, April 13, with a copy to
my office. Thank you.
RESPONSE:
TO:
CHRISS WINSTON
CLOSE 13, HOLD 1990
I concur with the attached Presidential remarks.
Brent Scowcroft
03
James W. Cicconi
El MAR 06
Assistant to the President
and Deputy to the Chief of Staff
CC: James Cicconi
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McGroarty/Dooley
April 12, 1990
1990 APR 12 PM 12: 08
11:00 am
[change]
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: WHITE HOUSE CONFERENCE ON GLOBAL CHANGE
J.W. MARRIOTT
APRIL 17, 1990
X:XX A.M.
Thank you. [Introductory acknowledgements.] I'm pleased to
welcome this international field of high-level officials --
experts on the environment, economy, science and energy to the
White House Conference on Global Change.
Two months ago, I had the honor of addressing the
International Panel on Climate Change -- a UN body doing such
vital work on this key environmental issue. I see this
conference making a key contribution to the process begun by the
IPCC. //
This gathering is the first to focus on a new dimension in
the global change dialogue -- the first to explore the link
between scientific research and economic analysis in the study of
global change. // And of course, this conference is itself
another sign of the growing importance of the environment on the
international agenda.
Here in the United States, we've moved one step closer to a
great victory for the environment: the passage of a
significantly stronger Clean Air Act. Ten months ago, we renewed
momentum lost for 12 years. / This month, our clean air package
cleared the U.S. Senate, with overwhelming support. And just
2
last week, the House Committee on Energy and Commerce voted out
its own version of a clean air bill, 42-1 -- and a full, floor
vote in the House may come in early May. //
The hard work isn't over. Both Houses -- and the White
House -- still have plenty to say on the shape of the final Clean
Air bill. But we can say with certainty that the United States
will have a new Clean Air Act on the books before the year is
out. //
Let me be clear: We're moving ahead on Clean Air
legislation because it is in America's interest. But, like so
many of the environmental issues that concern us -- we aren't the
only beneficiary of a better environment. // When it comes to
the environment, we are learning that local actions have global
consequences.
Understanding the effects of our actions on the environment
is the first step to a sound ecology -- and the subject that led
me to invite all of you here. I want to speak this morning about
what we can do over the course of the next two days to advance
our understanding of the critical question of global change.
This conference will help in three ways.
First, it provides an opportunity to sort out the science on
the complex issue of global change. // To start with what we
know -- about the Earth, this home we share. About the factors -
- natural as well as man-made -- that cause our environment to
change. // And to work from what we know toward answers to the
many uncertainties that abound.
3
Perhaps it's not surprising when the subject is global
change that the debate often generates more heat than light. //
Certainly, the apocalyptic pronouncements we've all heard don't
help us make policy. If they're meant to wake us up -- warn us
about the urgency of this issue -- well, we already know enough
to know we can't afford to bury our heads in the sand.
What we need is fact: the stuff science is made of. A
better understanding of the basic processes at work in our
environment -- and how they relate to one another. Better earth
system models -- that enable us to calculate the complex
interaction between man and our environment.
That's why I've asked Congress to approve a 60% increase in
our budget for the Global Change Research Program -- an
aggressive research program for which I've budgeted more than $1
billion dollars in 1991 -- to reduce the uncertainties
surrounding global change, and move us closer to the scientific
understanding we need. //
The second way this gathering can advance our understanding
is to address the economic factor in environmental questions. We
know that cleaning up our environment costs money. We know it
means changes in the way we work and live. Here in the U.S.,
we're already making those changes -- whether it's moving forward
on clean air, phasing-out the use of CFCs, or exploring
alternative sources of fuel and energy. We're proud of what
we've done -- but we know we're far from finished.
4
And yet as we move forward, all of us must make certain we
preserve our environmental well-being and our economic welfare.
This is in the interest of every nation here today -- in the
interests of the developed world and the developing world alike.
Let me focus for a moment on the developing world. In a
climate of poverty, or persistent economic decline, protecting
the environment becomes a far more difficult challenge. Cold
statistics don't begin to capture the harsh realities at stake.
Development doesn't mean just another point of GNP -- it's
meansured in human lives. An end to hunger. Longer life
expectancy. Lower infant mortality. 11 Not just quality of
life -- but life itself. Environmental policies that ignore the
economic factor -- the human factor -- are destined to fail.
But there is another reason to consider the economic factor
when the issue is the environment. There is no better ally in
service of our environment than strong economies. Economies that
make possible the increased efficiencies that enable us to make
environmental gains. Economies that generate the new
technologies that help us arrest and reverse the damage we have
done to our environment. 11
That brings me to the third way this conference contributes
to a net gain in knowledge: the fact that it provides us the
opportunity to form a partnership -- between nations, and across
the many disciplines represented here.
No subject is so vast as the study of global change -- the
ecology of the Earth. No subject offers greater challenges to
5
the understanding of man. Too often, these different disciplines
focusing on this question have worked in isolation -- with little
interchange of ideas, analysis, information.
This conference is a new departure -- a logical next step in
the study of global change -- because it brings together
environmentalists and economists, experts from the fields of
energy and science -- to search for common ground, to create a
clearing house through which we share the expertise each
discipline can bring to this difficult and demanding concern.
And this new partnership must bind nations as well. The
fact of the matter is, no one nation -- acting alone -- can
safeguard our Earth environment. Success requires a sense of
global stewardship -- an understanding that it is the Earth that
endures -- and that all of us are no more than tenants, in
temporary possession of a sacred trust. //
For the next two days, you'll be grappling with questions of
global consequence. I thank all of you for joining us here --
for seeking to advance our current state of understanding on an
issue with such profound affect on every nation and every
individual for generations to come. // God bless you all.
# # #
CLOSE HOLD
Document No. 132159SS Adion/HG
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
Cc RLS
MJB
DATE: 4/12/90
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY:
4/13/90 9:00 AM
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: WELCOMING REMARKS: WHITE HOUSE CONFERENCE
ON GLOBAL CHANGE
SUBJECT:
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
MCCLURE
SUNUNU
NEWMAN
SCOWCROFT
PORTER
DARMAN
ROGICH
BATES
UNTERMEYER
CARD
ROGERS
CICCONI
WINSTON
DEMAREST
BROMLEY
FITZWATER
DELAND
GRAY
BOSKIN
HAGIN
ADAIR, Doug
REMARKS:
Please forward any comments directly to Chriss Winston, Rm. 122,
x2930, no later than 9:00 AM, Friday, April 13, with a copy to
my office. Thank you.
RESPONSE:
CLOSE HOLD
90 MAR 13 AIO : 24
James W. Cicconi
Assistant to the President
and Deputy to the Chief of Staff
Ext. 2702
McGroarty/Dooley
April 12, 1990
1990 APR 12 Pil I2: 08
11:00 am
[change]
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: WHITE HOUSE CONFERENCE ON GLOBAL CHANGE
J.W. MARRIOTT
APRIL 17, 1990
X:XX A.M.
Thank you. [Introductory acknowledgements.] I'm pleased to
welcome this international field of high-level officials --
experts on the environment, economy, science and energy to the
White House Conference on Global Change.
Two months ago, I had the honor of addressing the
International Panel on Climate Change -- a UN body doing such
vital work on this key environmental issue. I see this
conference making a key contribution to the process begun by the
IPCC. //
This gathering is the first to focus on a new dimension in
the global change dialogue -- the first to explore the link
between scientific research and economic analysis in the study of
global change. // And of course, this conference is itself
another sign of the growing importance of the env ronment on the
international agenda.
Here in the United States, we've moved one step closer to a
great victory for the environment: the passage of a
significantly stronger Clean Air Act. Ten months ago, we renewed
momentum lost for 12 years. / This month, our clean air package
cleared the U.S. Senate, with overwhelming support. And just
2
last week, the House Committee on Energy and Commerce voted out
its own version of a clean air bill, 42-1 -- and a full, floor
vote in the House may come in early May. //
The hard work isn't over. Both Houses -- and the White
House -- still have plenty to say on the shape of the final Clean
Air bill. But we can say with certainty that the United States
will have la new Clean Air Act on the books before the year is
strong and economically sound new Clean Act
out. 11 We will continue to work with Cangress to develop an environmental
Let me be clear: We're moving ahead on Clean Air
legislation because it is in America's interest. But, like so
many of the environmental issues that concern us -- we aren't the
only beneficiary of a better environment. // When it comes to
the environment, we are learning that local actions have global
consequences.
Understanding the effects of our actions on the environment
is the first step to a sound ecology -- and the subject that led
me to invite all of you here. I want to speak this morning about
what we can do over the course of the next two days to advance
our understanding of the critical question of global change.
This conference will help in three ways.
First, it provides an opportunity to sort out the science on
the complex issue of global change. 11 To start with what we
know -- about the Earth, this home we share. About the factors -
- natural as well as man-made -- that cause our environment to
change. // And to work from what we know toward answers to the
many uncertainties that abound.
3
Perhaps it's not surprising when the subject is global
change that the debate often generates more heat than light. //
Certainly, the apocalyptic pronouncements we've all heard don't
help us make policy. If they're meant to wake us up -- warn us
about the urgency of this issue -- well, we already know enough
to know we can't afford to bury our heads in the sand.
What we need is fact: the stuff science is made of. A
better understanding of the basic processes at work in our
environment -- and how they relate to one another. Better earth
system models -- that enable us to calculate the complex
interaction between man and our environment.
That's why I've asked Congress to approve a 60% increase in
our budget for the Global Change Research Program -- an
aggressive research program for which I've budgeted more than $1
billion dollars in 1991 -- to reduce the uncertainties
surrounding global change, and move us closer to the scientific
understanding we need. //
The second way this gathering can advance our understanding
is to address the economic factor in environmental questions. We
know that cleaning up our environment costs money. We know it
means changes in the way we work and live. Here in the U.S.,
we're already making those changes -- whether it's moving forward
on clean air, phasing-out the use of CFCs, or exploring
alternative sources of fuel and energy. We're proud of what
we've done -- but we know we're far from finished.
4
And yet as we move forward, all of us must make certain we
preserve our environmental well-being and our economic welfare.
This is in the interest of every nation here today -- in the
interests of the developed world and the developing world alike.
Let me focus for a moment on the developing world. In a
climate of poverty, or persistent economic decline, protecting
the environment becomes a far more difficult challenge. Cold
statistics don't begin to capture the harsh realities at stake.
Development doesn't mean just another point of GNP -- it's
meansured in human lives. An end to hunger. Longer life
expectancy. Lower infant mortality. 11 Not just quality of
life -- but life itself. Environmental policies that ignore the
economic factor -- the human factor -- are destined to fail.
But there is another reason to consider the economic factor
when the issue is the environment. There is no better ally in
service of our environment than strong economies. Economies that
make possible the increased efficiencies that enable us to make
environmental gains. Economies that generate the new
technologies that help us arrest and reverse the damage we have
done to our environment. //
That brings me to the third way this conference contributes
to a net gain in knowledge: the fact that it provides us the
opportunity to form a partnership -- between nations, and across
the many disciplines represented here.
No subject is so vast as the study of global change -- the
ecology of the Earth. No subject offers greater challenges to
5
the understanding of man. Too often, these different disciplines
focusing on this question have worked in isolation -- with little
interchange of ideas, analysis, information.
This conference is a new departure -- a logical next step in
the study of global change -- because it brings together
environmentalists and economists, experts from the fields of
energy and science -- to search for common ground, to create a
clearing house through which we share the expertise each
discipline can bring to this difficult and demanding concern.
And this new partnership must bind nations as well. The
fact of the matter is, no one nation -- acting alone -- can
safeguard our Earth environment. Success requires a sense of
global stewardship -- an understanding that it is the Earth that
endures -- and that all of us are no more than tenants, in
temporary possession of a sacred trust. 11
For the next two days, you'll be grappling with questions of
global consequence. I thank all of you for joining us here --
for seeking to advance our current state of understanding on an
issue with such profound affect on every nation and every
individual for generations to come. 11 God bless you all.
# # #
CLOSE HOLD
Document No. 132159SS
WHITE HOUSE STAFFING MEMORANDUM
DATE: 4/12/90
ACTION/CONCURRENCE/COMMENT DUE BY:
4/13/90 9:00 AM
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: WELCOMING REMARKS: WHITE HOUSE CONFERENCE
ON GLOBAL CHANGE
SUBJECT:
ACTION FYI
ACTION FYI
VICE PRESIDENT
MCCLURE
SUNUNU
NEWMAN
SCOWCROFT
PORTER
DARMAN
ROGICH
BATES
UNTERMEYER
CARD
ROGERS
CICCONI
WINSTON
DEMAREST
BROMLEY
FITZWATER
DELAND
GRAY
BOSKIN
HAGIN
ADAIR, Doug
REMARKS:
Please forward any comments directly to Chriss Winston, Rm. 122,
x2930, no later than 9:00 AM, Friday, April 13, with a copy to
my office. Thank you.
RESPONSE:
CLOSE HOLD
No Correnks- -
(ER ouk of kown)
61 : 8v EI RAH 06
James W. Cicconi
Assistant to the President
and Deputy to the Chief of Staff
Thanks,
Ext. 2702
Mia
4/12 630pm
McGroarty/Dooley
April 12, 1990
1990 APR 12 PM 12: 08
11:00 am
[change]
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: WHITE HOUSE CONFERENCE ON GLOBAL CHANGE
J.W. MARRIOTT
APRIL 17, 1990
X:XX A.M.
Thank you. [Introductory acknowledgements.] I'm pleased to
welcome this international field of high-level officials --
experts on the environment, economy, science and energy to the
White House Conference on Global Change.
Two months ago, I had the honor of addressing the
International Panel on Climate Change -- a UN body doing such
vital work on this key environmental issue. I see this
conference making a key contribution to the process begun by the
IPCC. //
This gathering is the first to focus on a new dimension in
the global change dialogue -- the first to explore the link
between scientific research and economic analysis in the study of
global change. // And of course, this conference is itself
another sign of the growing importance of the environment on the
international agenda.
Here in the United States, we've moved one step closer to a
great victory for the environment: the passage of a
significantly stronger Clean Air Act. Ten months ago, we renewed
momentum lost for 12 years. / This month, our clean air package
cleared the U.S. Senate, with overwhelming support. And just
2
last week, the House Committee on Energy and Commerce voted out
its own version of a clean air bill, 42-1 -- and a full, floor
vote in the House may come in early May. //
The hard work isn't over. Both Houses -- and the White
House -- still have plenty to say on the shape of the final Clean
Air bill. But we can say with certainty that the United States
will have a new Clean Air Act on the books before the year is
out. //
Let me be clear: We're moving ahead on Clean Air
legislation because it is in America's interest. But, like so
many of the environmental issues that concern us -- we aren't the
only beneficiary of a better environment. // When it comes to
the environment, we are learning that local actions have global
consequences.
Understanding the effects of our actions on the environment
is the first step to a sound ecology -- and the subject that led
me to invite all of you here. I want to speak this morning about
what we can do over the course of the next two days to advance
our understanding of the critical question of global change.
This conference will help in three ways.
First, it provides an opportunity to sort out the science on
the complex issue of global change. // To start with what we
know -- about the Earth, this home we share. About the factors -
- natural as well as man-made -- that cause our environment to
change. // And to work from what we know toward answers to the
many uncertainties that abound.
3
Perhaps it's not surprising when the subject is global
change that the debate often generates more heat than light. //
Certainly, the apocalyptic pronouncements we've all heard don't
help us make policy. If they're meant to wake us up -- warn us
about the urgency of this issue -- well, we already know enough
to know we can't afford to bury our heads in the sand.
What we need is fact: the stuff science is made of. A
better understanding of the basic processes at work in our
environment -- and how they relate to one another. Better earth
system models -- that enable us to calculate the complex
interaction between man and our environment.
That's why I've asked Congress to approve a 60% increase in
our budget for the Global Change Research Program -- an
aggressive research program for which I've budgeted more than $1
billion dollars in 1991 -- to reduce the uncertainties
surrounding global change, and move us closer to the scientific
understanding we need. //
The second way this gathering can advance our understanding
is to address the economic factor in environmental questions. We
know that cleaning up our environment costs money. We know it
means changes in the way we work and live. Here in the U.S.,
we're already making those changes -- whether it's moving forward
on clean air, phasing-out the use of CFCs, or exploring
alternative sources of fuel and energy. We're proud of what
we've done -- but we know we're far from finished.
4
And yet as we move forward, all of us must make certain we
preserve our environmental well-being and our economic welfare.
This is in the interest of every nation here today -- in the
interests of the developed world and the developing world alike.
Let me focus for a moment on the developing world. In a
climate of poverty, or persistent economic decline, protecting
the environment becomes a far more difficult challenge. Cold
statistics don't begin to capture the harsh realities at stake.
Development doesn't mean just another point of GNP -- it's
meansured in human lives. An end to hunger. Longer life
expectancy. Lower infant mortality. 11 Not just quality of
life -- but life itself. Environmental policies that ignore the
economic factor -- the human factor -- are destined to fail.
But there is another reason to consider the economic factor
when the issue is the environment. There is no better ally in
service of our environment than strong economies. Economies that
make possible the increased efficiencies that enable us to make
environmental gains. Economies that generate the new
technologies that help us arrest and reverse the damage we have
done to our environment. //
That brings me to the third way this conference contributes
to a net gain in knowledge: the fact that it provides us the
opportunity to form a partnership -- between nations, and across
the many disciplines represented here.
No subject is so vast as the study of global change -- the
ecology of the Earth. No subject offers greater challenges to
1
5
the understanding of man. Too often, these different disciplines
focusing on this question have worked in isolation -- with little
interchange of ideas, analysis, information.
This conference is a new departure -- a logical next step in
the study of global change -- because it brings together
environmentalists and economists, experts from the fields of
energy and science -- to search for common ground, to create a
clearing house through which we share the expertise each
discipline can bring to this difficult and demanding concern.
And this new partnership must bind nations as well. The
fact of the matter is, no one nation -- acting alone -- can
safeguard our Earth environment. Success requires a sense of
global stewardship -- an understanding that it is the Earth that
endures -- and that all of us are no more than tenants, in
temporary possession of a sacred trust. 11
For the next two days, you'll be grappling with questions of
global consequence. I thank all of you for joining us here --
for seeking to advance our current state of understanding on an
issue with such profound affect on every nation and every
individual for generations to come. // God bless you all.
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[change]
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: WHITE HOUSE CONFERENCE ON GLOBAL CHANGE
J.W. MARRIOTT
APRIL 17, 1990
X:XX A.M.
Thank you. [Introductory acknowledgements. 1 I'm pleased to
welcome this international field of high-level officials --
experts on the environment, economy, science and energy to the
White House Conference on Global Change.
International Panel on Climate Change -- a UN body sponsored doing such
Intergovernmental
Two months ago, I had the honor of addressing the
A
vital work on this key environmental issue. I see this
conference making & kay contribution to the process begun by the
IPCC. 11
This gathering is the first to focus on a new dimension in
the global change dialogue -- the first to explore the link
between scientific research and economic analysis in the study of
global change. 11 And of course, this conference is itself
another sign of the growing importance of the environment on the
international agenda.
Here in the United States, we've moved one step closer to a
great victory for the environment: the passage of a
significantly stronger Clean Air Act. Ten months ago, we renewed
momentum lost for 12 years. / This month, our clean air package
cleared the U.S. Senate, with overwhelming support. And just
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policy-makers - to assess the environmental and developmental
future of the planet. An unprecedented cross-fertilization of
disciplines -- and of nations. That alone is reason for hope.
If you have raised more questions than conclusions here,
your work has been worthwhile. But if diversity of perspective
is expected, unity of purpose is crucial. In an atmosphere of
uncertainty, we must foster a climate of good will -- and a
stubborn hope, that we might forge solutions without the
excessive heat of politics.
Among all of the challenges in our tenancy of the planet,
climate change is, of course, foremost in your minds. You are
helping us work from what we know, through the uncertainty of
both the science and the economics of climate change. But there
is one area where we will allow for no uncertainty -- and that is
our commitment to finding solutions that work.
There are several things that the climate change debate is
not about. It is not "Jobs versus Environment" the two are
No clear
inseparably interdependent the destructive experience or so
many developing nations has shown. We must clearly understand
both environmental cause and economic effect. For if we cannot
countries
see the forest for the trees, we risk losing both.
mind
Nor is the climate change debate about "Economists versus
simplistic terms
Environmentalists." " only in the most minds has it
been reduced to a rhetorical holy-war between bean-counters and
tree-huggers.
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But above all, the climate change debate is not about
"Research versus Action" -- for we have never considered research
any substitute for action. We already know enough to act --
and We are.
Over the last two days you've heard from key members of this
administration about action the United States is already taking
-- our leading investment in climate change research and response
strategies, our Clean Air legislation, our comprehensive national
energy strategy, our search for alternative and more efficient
energy sources, our re-forestation initiatives, and technical
assistance programs to developing nations.
What bears emphasis is that we are committed to -- moving on
usually
-- and out front with -- domestic and international policies that
are environmentally aggressive, effective, and cost-effective.
And we are deeply committed to an international partnership,
IPCC
FIRST
each each word
through the REPORT process. We look forward to its [
Assessment and would encourage a framework convention as part
of a comprehensive approach addressing the system, sources, and
sinks as a whole. We hope to host the first negotiating sessions
here in the U.S. -- and we've just [ insert to come 1.
?
All of you here today understand climate change as one
of many challenges in the call to global stewardship. Ozone
depletion, water supply, ocean pollution, wetlands,
deforestation, biodiversity, population change, hunger,
energy demand -- in short, all of the interrelated issues of
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sustainable development: Each demands our attention. And each
has a human dimension We must never forget.
Understand the choices we are making. They affect VS all,
but in profoundly different ways.
In too many developing countries, the consequences of
premature policy-making will be reflected in life-threatening
competition for limited resources. In political instability --
and man-made limits to prosperity. And it will be most painfully
reflected in the hollow eyes of hungry children, and their
prospects for survival.
If developed nations ignore the needs of developing nations,
it will imperil us all. We know that a change in G.N.P. of even
mas
a few tenths of a percent means the difference between
adequate shelter, food, and health care -- and human
castastrophe.
To bear this in mind is no barrier to action. It merely
suggests that those who have ascended the economic hill must
think twice before building walls that would prevent others
from making the climb.
It is a reminder that economic limits have serious human
costs. And it suggests that the best policies are those of well-
managed growth: The only kind of growth that true global
stewardship allows -- but only possible if the nations of the
world are linked in partnerships of every kind: scientific,
economic, technical, agricultural, environmental.
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Developing nations will contribute a growing share of the
World's emissions in the coming decades. They face the greatest
threats from environmental degradation of every kind and can
least afford the consequences.
But pollution is not, as we once believed, the inevitable
by-product of progress. The developed nations of the World will
better serve their own interests, and those of the world
community, not by seeking limits to growth -- which would never
survive human nature -- but by catalyzing environmental
protection through more intelligent, more informed, more
efficient growth.
Notclear
H
some
Evenenzues
Those who value
environmental quality most highly, should be the most ardent
supporters of strategies that tap the power of free wills and
free markets, that turn human nature to environmental advantage.
Efficient strategies are the only realistic hope that developing
support
nations might avoid making the mistakes that developed nations
franket
have made.
approache
And we have made mistakes. When America made its transition
from an agrarian to an industrial economy, we paid a price. what
we learned, we learned the hard way. And in some ways, we're
still fighting our way back. But over the past century we've
made tremendous progress -- especially in the last twenty years.
Two decades ago, this nation -- holding to its birth-right
of free expression and the value of the dissenting voice -- was
home to one protest movement in an era of protests, called Earth
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In the majestic city of Krakow, monuments to great men,
numerous
statues that survived invasions by Swedish Kings and Austrian
emperors by Hitler and by Stalin have been defaced by -
pollution, as their medieval majesty is reduced to shapeless
Austriest staling
lumps of stone.
be
If mankind's greatest creations cannot equal God's smallest,
some may grieve that our greatest destruction is turned at times
mappo-
upon ourselves. And we may not see much hope in the faces of the
priate
starving, or the faces of ancient monuments. But we can find
cause for optimism among the men and women in this room.
Let us act on what we know, and in good faith. The earth
cannot, must not be sacrificed to blind material ambition -- nor
can the health, the very survival of millions be sacrificed by
intemperate policies. Let us work to meet the needs of this
generation, while preserving the earth for the next, and all that
follow.
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