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5/27/92
ENVIRONMENTAL ADDRESS
29
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PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS:
GODDARD SPACE CENTER
GREENBELT, MARYLAND
MONDAY, JUNE 1, 1992
2:00 p.m.
Thank you, Administrator Dan Goldin, for that introduction.
((Senator Mikulski) ) ( (Administrator Reilly) ) :
You know, in just over a month on the job, Dan Goldin has
supervised the recovery of a satellite on Endeavor's maiden
voyage, won a vote to save the space station on the floor of the
House, and launched his own "cultural revolution" at NASA. I'd
say the "new NASA" is off to a flying start. //
Twenty years ago this month, the leaders of the world
gathered in Sweden to talk about the human environment.
The Stockholm Declaration they adopted had a simple
conclusion, that:
"
through fuller knowledge and wiser action,
we can achieve for ourselves and our posterity a better life in
an environment more in keeping with human needs and hopes."
That meeting occurred when the environmental movement was in
its infancy. Later that year, the first Clean Water Act passed
the United States Congress. Our EPA at the time was one year
old. America, like so many nations around the world, was just
beginning to face up to the consequences of unmitigated
pollution.
Back then, DDT levels showing up in wildlife around the
Great Lakes were eight times what they are today. PCBs were six
times as prevalent. Thousands of miles of rivers and streams
2
were not fit for swimming or fishing. Sulfur dioxide and lead
clogged the lungs of city dwellers. The Cayohoga River in
Cleveland actually caught fire spontaneously -- prompting the
songwriter Randy Newman to pen the song "Burn on, big river, burn
on. "
Much has occurred since those early days of
environmentalism. And much of what has occurred happened first
in the United States of America. In just two decades, we've
passed a comprehensive superstructure of statutes to protect our
air, our water, and our wildlife -- to expand our natural areas
and to clean up the lingering legacy of hazardous wastes. Today,
America is a safer, cleaner nation -- and our laws have served as
a model for environmental laws the world over.
We were the first nation to recognize the danger of CFC
emissions by eliminating aerosol propellants, which we did in
1978. Other nations are now following suit as they meet their
obligations under an international agreement to phase out CFCs.
We were the first nation, back in 1975, to adopt catalytic
converters to reduce emissions from our cars and trucks --
European nations are now in the process of adopting them.
In 1982, we began phasing out lead from American gasoline.
Today, ambient levels of lead in our air have been cut by 95
percent. Now, several other nations are looking at the
possibility of cutting back on leaded gasoline as a means of
meeting their clean air objectives.
3
Since 1977, carbon monoxide levels in our air have been cut
30 percent; ozone 20 percent; particulate 25 percent; and sulfur
dioxide 18 percent. The discharge of suspended solids into our
waterways was cut by over 80 percent. And as of 1988, 96 percent
of our lakes and reservoirs were found to be fishable and
swimmable.
Throughout these two decades since Stockholm, then, America
has been the leader in protecting the environment.
In the last four years, we have worked to extend that record
-- on every front. The 1990 Clean Air Act will cut emissions of
sulfur dioxide in half, emissions of toxic chemicals by ninety
percent, and the number of U.S. cities not meeting smog and
carbon monoxide standards from over a hundred to a handful by the
end of the decade.
We've signed new laws to prevent oil spills by requiring
double hulls on oil tankers, to protect the flyways of migratory
birds, and to help protect our largest rainforest -- the Tongass.
We have fined and jailed polluters in record numbers; placed a
moratorium on oil and gas drilling in precious areas of our
coasts; added over a billion dollars to our system of parks,
wildlife refuges, forests, and public lands; launched a
reforestation plan to plant a billion trees a year; and signed
international agreements on everything from the transboundary
movement of hazardous wastes to the protection of the African
elephant.
4
Next week, dozens of heads of state will again gather -- in
Rio de Janeiro. I will join them, because the United States has
a stake -- indeed, every nation has a stake -- in a safer,
cleaner world.
And I suppose it is only fitting to come to this center, on
the eve of the Rio summit, to talk about my vision for building
such a world. To talk about what we have accomplished -- and
what we hope to accomplish. To talk about the lessons learned
since Stockholm, and about the road ahead.
Goddard, through its invaluable contributions to the
understanding and observation of our earth, has in a very real
sense made progress at the UNCED meeting possible.
Your work has revealed some fundamental truths about the
environmental challenges we face.
A spacecraft created at Goddard provided the world with its
first image of Earth from space. In one breathtaking photo, you
underlined what volumes of words could not have described
better -- that the earth and its atmosphere are our common
inheritance. That any solution to the problems facing the earth
must involve every nation -- because those problems are global in
scope.
It was Goddard scientists who developed the Upper
Atmospheric Research Satellite -- UARS --- launched last year,
which is providing us new insight about the ozone layer. The
buildup of chlorine in the upper atmosphere, and the depletion of
5
ozone, are long-term problems, built up over many years. They
will require sustained commitment to solve.
And the lion's share of the science that the world is using
to understand our climate comes from a program with its heart and
soul right here -- the U.S. Global Change Research Program, built
around the Earth Observing System that Goddard is developing. We
are still learning about the enormously complex challenges this
planet faces -- from global warming to El Nino, from biodiversity
to desertification. To make the right decisions, we will need to
learn as we go. So we need a sustained investment in the
knowledge base that makes sound policymaking possible.
At the end of the day, that's what the Rio summit is all
about. Policy. Making decisions. And taking action.
Frankly, the United States of America has brought a very no-
nonsense approach to the preparations for Rio. We have made it
clear that what matters to us, what matters from the perspective
of the global environment, and what should matter to those who
care about its health, is action.
From the beginning of the climate change negotiations which
formed the centerpiece of this conference, we made clear this
bias for action.
We offered to host the first round of negotiations at
Chantilly, Virginia in 1991. And at that time, we laid on the
table an action agenda on climate change -- with specific policy
proposals we were implementing or prepared to implement, and with
our specific calculations concerning how much we expected to
6
reduce greenhouse gas emissions as a result of those policies.
The result was encouraging. We found that our expected year 2000
greenhouse gas emission levels were expected to be below our
current levels.
When the science changed, indicating that cutting CFCs would
not reduce warming as much as we had thought, we supplemented
that plan. Earlier this year, we added a whole range of
additional measures -- from EPA's Green Lights program to the
range of energy efficiency measures contained in my National
Energy Strategy. We again laid our plan on the table -- in
specific detail -- showing that our policies would reduce U.S.
net greenhouse gas emissions by 125 to 200 million tons a year by
the year 2000.
No other nation has laid out such a specific plan of action.
And that explains our strategy during the negotiations. That
every nation should have a plan of action, with a focus on
results -- not rhetoric.
It may not have been widely reported in the press, but in
area after area, the U.S. laid down specific proposals, and
worked for their adoption. Forests. Oceans. Living Marine
Resources. Public participation. Financing.
Make no mistake: America has not retreated, and will not
retreat from its leadership role in protecting the global
environment.
Today, the United States spends about two percent its Gross
National Product -- over 100 billion dollars per year --
7
protecting the environment from pollution. That investment is
scheduled to rise.
That continuing commitment of resources and national energy
reflects one central tenet of our policy -- that what counts is
performance over the long haul. We may not go to Rio with the
best words, but we will go with the best policies.
More importantly, the commitment to act must not end at
UNCED. If Rio is a one-shot deal, it will have been a failure.
So when I travel to Brazil next week, I will bring with me
several proposals to extend the commitment of the world community
into the future. We need not just the will to meet, but the will
to act.
To make sure that the process and the institutional capacity
for follow-up exists, we will endorse a continuing entity under
the auspices of the United Nations -- a Council on Sustainable
Development -- to help foster the international cooperation we
will need to tackle these global problems.
To strengthen the will to act, I will offer a four point
plan of cooperation.
First with respect to climate. The signing of a convention
that calls for action plans is just a first step. Now countries
must move quickly to develop them. So I will join in proposing a
"prompt start" to implementation of climate action plans.
The United States is already well along the road to not only
developing but implementing its action plan. But we stand ready
8
to assist others -- particularly the developing countries -- in
preparing theirs.
The participation of these developing countries is vital.
Over the next three decades, carbon dioxide emissions from the
developing countries are projected to triple. While today these
nations account for about one quarter of the world's emissions,
by the year 2025, they will contribute almost half. So any
agreement which ignores the need to include them is destined to
fail.
To begin this process, the United States has already
committed to help fund country studies that can help these
nations identify the sources of emissions and the best means of
curbing them.
We have insisted throughout the negotiations that any
solution to the climate change problem must be comprehensive --
that is, it should allow for the inclusion of all sources and
sinks of greenhouse gases. The agreement we have reached does
just this.
One of the most cost effective means of reducing net
emissions for many countries will be to enhance greenhouse
sinks -- in particular, forests.
So the second point which I will propose in Rio is a major
new initiative to protect and enhance the world's forests.
The benefits of forests are many -- they filter the air and
water; they provide products from timber and fuelwood to
9
ingredients for Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream; they sequester carbon;
and they provide habitat for all manner of living things.
Tropical forests cover just seven percent of the world's
surface -- yet they are home to more than half the world's
species. And forest loss today contributes about 20 percent of
net man made carbon dioxide emissions.
We can jump start progress on addressing global warming and
protecting the biological diversity of the earth with a single
forceful step on behalf of forests -- and we can do it today.
At the Houston Economic Summit two years ago, I proposed to
the leaders of the G-7 countries that we work for a global forest
convention. And it remains my hope that the principles leading
to such a convention will be agreed at Rio.
But I propose today to move ahead in advance of that formal
convention. At Rio, I will ask the other industrialized
countries of the world to join me in doubling worldwide forests
assistance. The goal of this initiative would be to stabilize
world forest cover by the end of this decade.
About $1.35 billion dollars a year are now provided
worldwide in forest assistance. I propose to double this amount
to $2.7 billion. As a downpayment, the U.S. will increase its
bilateral forest assistance by 150 million dollars next year.
Forests today are under stress. In the last decade,
tropical forests have disappeared at a rate of over 40 million
acres a year.
10
This initiative would reverse that trend. The assistance
can be provided through existing bilateral or multilateral
mechanisms. And recipient countries could propose new projects.
The plan is to encourage investor countries to in effect bid
on the most effective projects. This down payment on forests
will use a market mechanism to achieve the greatest environmental
return -- because investments will flow to the projects with the
greatest marginal benefit in terms of decreased net emissions or
critical habitat preserved.
( (We will also act to get our own house in order. We will
push Congress to fund our program -- the world's largest
reforestation effort -- to plant a billion trees a year. And
this week, the Forest Service will adopt new rules to end the
clearcutting of our national forests as an acceptable forest
practice. ))
Saving the forests may be the most effective immediate step
the world can take -- but it is not the only one.
The history of the world has been to benefit from
technology. Technology has made us more productive, and raised
our standard of living. In the U.S., technology has helped us
cut pollution, and become more energy efficient as well.
That's one reason that my budget includes an investment of
almost a billion dollars in developing the new energy and
efficiency related technologies of tomorrow.
It is time for a new generation of clean growth -- the
world over. We need a quantum leap in the world's develop,
11
fueled by new, more energy efficient technology -- and yes, I
hope much of it will be American technology.
In preparation for the UNCED summit, I met with the Business
Council for Sustainable Development -- businessmen from around
the world who sense the opportunity presented by a partnership
between businesses and governments oriented toward cleaner, more
efficient development.
I am pleased to note that hundreds of American businessmen
will be travelling to Rio for this conference. I want the
opportunities facing them -- and the benefits their goods and
services can provide to the rest of the world -- to be long
lasting.
-
So the third part of our plan is to support a broad program
of technology cooperation at Rio -- and afterwards.
Specifically, I propose to create a Technology Cooperation Corps.
This Corps would be teams of U.S. businessmen and women who, with
institutional support from the government, would investigate the
needs of countries around the world for environmentally sound
technology, and knock down the barriers to making it available.
The need for an ongoing program of technology cooperation
underscores the point that our ability to address global
environmental challenges is evolving -- as indeed is our
understanding of the challenges themselves.
So the fourth point of any program for a cleaner future must
involve a continued program of research and understanding. This
year, we are requesting over $1.4 billion for the U.S. Global
12
Change Research Program -- that's more than half the money spent
on climate research in the entire world.
We want to make sure that this work is useful. That was the
point behind our restructuring of the EOS program last year -- to
get results faster, cheaper, and better. That's what Dan Goldin
is driving for throughout NASA. Today, I am signing a National
Space Policy Directive, developed by Vice President Quayle's
Space Council, that will place us firmly on this path. By using
new technology and smaller satellites, we can move up the
timetable for obtaining critical data on global change.
The directive does something else -- it formalizes our
policy of making this data available and affordable for
scientists and researchers from the public and private sector
from all around the world.
We believe in sharing the benefits of our earth observation
system -- and I will take that message to Rio. To make that
message concrete, we will distribute at UNCED, at no cost,
thousands of copies of computer disks -- each with over a billion
bytes of data -- with our best information on greenhouse effects.
And upon our return, the U.S. will open this year a Global
Change Research Information Office to disseminate this
information to governments, businesses, and scientists.
UNCED not only holds out the promise of ushering in an era
of sustainable development; it gives us the chance to help launch
a new generation of clean growth.
13
These four steps -- the preparation of solid action plans;
a
dramatic first step to protect and enhance forests; cooperation
in deploying cleaner, more efficient technology; and an ongoing
program to develop and share sound science -- can help us seize
that opportunity long after the speeches in Rio have been given
and the conference is over.
Our predecessors who met at Stockholm had the gift of
foresight. They explicitly called for the discussion at Rio to
be about both environment and development. They knew, back then,
that the two were inextricably linked.
Only a growing economy which provides hope for the future
can generate the resources and the will to manage natural assets
for the longer term and the common good. But only assets which
are so managed can support the growth on which so much human hope
is hinged. By definition, for development be successful in the
long-term, it must be sustainable.
They couldn't have known how clear the lessons of history
would be in the intervening two decades. How it would be
revealed for all to see, when the pollution spawned by
totalitarianism in Eastern Europe and for former Soviet Union was
exposed to the world, that only free markets and democratic
systems provide the accountability necessary for a clean
environment.
They couldn't have known that, as the leaders of the world
prepared to gather for this next earth summit, the specter of
14
nuclear war -- with its unthinkable destruction -- would be
calmed as never before in our postwar history.
They couldn't have envisioned that, with a world at peace,
a
more knowledgeable public, and a commitment from the public and
private sectors of virtually every country, those who would be
coming to Rio would be poised to launch a new generation of clean
growth.
The signers of the Stockholm declaration called the
protection and improvement of the environment "the urgent desire
of all peoples." They could never have known how far we'd come
in these two decades -- and how much further we'd have the
potential to go.
Thank you, God bless you, and God bless the United States of
America.
######
( (Grady) )
5/27/92
29
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PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS:
ENVIRONMENTAL ADDRESS
GODDARD SPACE CENTER
GREENBELT, MARYLAND
MONDAY, JUNE 1, 1992
2:00 p.m.
Thank you, Administrator Dan Goldin, for that introduction.
((Senator Mikulski) ) , ((Administrator Reilly) ) :
You know, in just over a month on the job, Dan Goldin has
supervised the recovery of a satellite on Endeavor's maiden
voyage, won a vote to save the space station on the floor of the
House, and launched his own "cultural revolution" at NASA. I'd
say the "new NASA" is off to a flying start. //
Twenty years ago this month, the leaders of the world
gathered in Sweden to talk about the human environment.
The Stockholm Declaration they adopted had a simple
conclusion, that: " through fuller knowledge and wiser action,
we can achieve for ourselves and our posterity a better life in
an environment more in keeping with human needs and hopes."
That meeting occurred when the environmental movement was in
its infancy. Later that year, the first Clean Water Act passed
the United States Congress. Our EPA at the time was one year
old. America, like so many nations around the world, was just
beginning to face up to the consequences of unmitigated
pollution.
Back then, DDT levels showing up in wildlife around the
Great Lakes were eight times what they are today. PCBs were six
times as prevalent. Thousands of miles of rivers and streams
2
were not fit for swimming or fishing. Sulfur dioxide and lead
clogged the lungs of city dwellers. The Cayohoga River in
Cleveland actually caught fire spontaneously -- prompting the
songwriter Randy Newman to pen the song "Burn on, big river, burn
on. "
Much has occurred since those early days of
environmentalism. And much of what has occurred happened first
in the United States of America. In just two decades, we've
passed a comprehensive superstructure of statutes to protect our
air, our water, and our wildlife -- to expand our natural areas
and to clean up the lingering legacy of hazardous wastes. Today,
America is a safer, cleaner nation -- and our laws have served as
a model for environmental laws the world over.
We were the first nation to recognize the danger of CFC
emissions by eliminating aerosol propellants, which we did in
1978. Other nations are now following suit as they meet their
obligations under an international agreement to phase out CFCs.
We were the first nation, back in 1975, to adopt catalytic
converters to reduce emissions from our cars and trucks --
European nations are now in the process of adopting them.
In 1982, we began phasing out lead from American gasoline.
Today, ambient levels of lead in our air have been cut by 95
percent. Now, several other nations are looking at the
possibility of cutting back on leaded gasoline as a means of
meeting their clean air objectives.
3
Since 1977, carbon monoxide levels in our air have been cut
30 percent; ozone 20 percent; particulate 25 percent; and sulfur
dioxide 18 percent. The discharge of suspended solids into our
waterways was cut by over 80 percent. And as of 1988, 96 percent
of our lakes and reservoirs were found to be fishable and
swimmable.
Throughout these two decades since Stockholm, then, America
has been the leader in protecting the environment.
In the last four years, we have worked to extend that record
-- on every front. The 1990 Clean Air Act will cut emissions of
sulfur dioxide in half, emissions of toxic chemicals by ninety
percent, and the number of U.S. cities not meeting smog and
carbon monoxide standards from over a hundred to a handful by the
end of the decade.
We've signed new laws to prevent oil spills by requiring
double hulls on oil tankers, to protect the flyways of migratory
birds, and to help protect our largest rainforest -- the Tongass.
We have fined and jailed polluters in record numbers; placed a
moratorium on oil and gas drilling in precious areas of our
coasts; added over a billion dollars to our system of parks,
wildlife refuges, forests, and public lands; launched a
reforestation plan to plant a billion trees a year; and signed
international agreements on everything from the transboundary
movement of hazardous wastes to the protection of the African
elephant.
4
Next week, dozens of heads of state will again gather -- in
Rio de Janeiro. I will join them, because the United States has
a stake -- indeed, every nation has a stake -- in a safer,
cleaner world.
And I suppose it is only fitting to come to this center, on
the eve of the Rio summit, to talk about my vision for building
such a world. To talk about what we have accomplished -- and
what we hope to accomplish. To talk about the lessons learned
since Stockholm, and about the road ahead.
Goddard, through its invaluable contributions to the
understanding and observation of our earth, has in a very real
sense made progress at the UNCED meeting possible.
Your work has revealed some fundamental truths about the
environmental challenges we face.
A spacecraft created at Goddard provided the world with its
first image of Earth from space. In one breathtaking photo, you
underlined what volumes of words could not have described
better -- that the earth and its atmosphere are our common
inheritance. That any solution to the problems facing the earth
must involve every nation -- because those problems are global in
scope.
It was Goddard scientists who developed the Upper
Atmospheric Research Satellite -- UARS --- launched last year,
which is providing us new insight about the ozone layer. The
buildup of chlorine in the upper atmosphere, and the depletion of
5
ozone, are long-term problems, built up over many years. They
will require sustained commitment to solve.
And the lion's share of the science that the world is using
to understand our climate comes from a program with its heart and
soul right here -- the U.S. Global Change Research Program, built
around the Earth Observing System that Goddard is developing. We
are still learning about the enormously complex challenges this
planet faces -- from global warming to El Nino, from biodiversity
to desertification. To make the right decisions, we will need to
learn as we go. So we need a sustained investment in the
knowledge base that makes sound policymaking possible.
At the end of the day, that's what the Rio summit is all
about. Policy. Making decisions. And taking action.
Frankly, the United States of America has brought a very no-
nonsense approach to the preparations for Rio. We have made it
clear that what matters to us, what matters from the perspective
of the global environment, and what should matter to those who
care about its health, is action.
From the beginning of the climate change negotiations which
formed the centerpiece of this conference, we made clear this
bias for action.
We offered to host the first round of negotiations at
Chantilly, Virginia in 1991. And at that time, we laid on the
table an action agenda on climate change -- with specific policy
proposals we were implementing or prepared to implement, and with
our specific calculations concerning how much we expected to
6
reduce greenhouse gas emissions as a result of those policies.
The result was encouraging. We found that our expected year 2000
greenhouse gas emission levels were expected to be below our
current levels.
When the science changed, indicating that cutting CFCs would
not reduce warming as much as we had thought, we supplemented
that plan. Earlier this year, we added a whole range of
additional measures -- from EPA's Green Lights program to the
range of energy efficiency measures contained in my National
Energy Strategy. We again laid our plan on the table -- in
specific detail -- showing that our policies would reduce U.S.
net greenhouse gas emissions by 125 to 200 million tons a year by
the year 2000.
No other nation has laid out such a specific plan of action.
And that explains our strategy during the negotiations. That
every nation should have a plan of action, with a focus on
results -- not rhetoric.
It may not have been widely reported in the press, but in
area after area, the U.S. laid down specific proposals, and
worked for their adoption. Forests. Oceans. Living Marine
Resources. Public participation. Financing.
Make no mistake: America has not retreated, and will not
retreat from its leadership role in protecting the global
environment.
Today, the United States spends about two percent its Gross
National Product -- over 100 billion dollars per year --
7
protecting the environment from pollution. That investment is
scheduled to rise.
That continuing commitment of resources and national energy
reflects one central tenet of our policy -- that what counts is
performance over the long haul. We may not go to Rio with the
best words, but we will go with the best policies.
More importantly, the commitment to act must not end at
UNCED. If Rio is a one-shot deal, it will have been a failure.
So when I travel to Brazil next week, I will bring with me
several proposals to extend the commitment of the world community
into the future. We need not just the will to meet, but the will
to act.
To make sure that the process and the institutional capacity
for follow-up exists, we will endorse a continuing entity under
the auspices of the United Nations -- a Council on Sustainable
Development -- to help foster the international cooperation we
will need to tackle these global problems.
To strengthen the will to act, I will offer a four point
plan of cooperation.
First with respect to climate. The signing of a convention
that calls for action plans is just a first step. Now countries
must move quickly to develop them. So I will join in proposing a
"prompt start" to implementation of climate action plans.
The United States is already well along the road to not only
developing but implementing its action plan. But we stand ready
8
to assist others -- particularly the developing countries -- in
preparing theirs.
The participation of these developing countries is vital.
Over the next three decades, carbon dioxide emissions from the
developing countries are projected to triple. While today these
nations account for about one quarter of the world's emissions,
by the year 2025, they will contribute almost half. So any
agreement which ignores the need to include them is destined to
fail.
To begin this process, the United States has already
committed to help fund country studies that can help these
nations identify the sources of emissions and the best means of
curbing them.
We have insisted throughout the negotiations that any
solution to the climate change problem must be comprehensive --
that is, it should allow for the inclusion of all sources and
sinks of greenhouse gases. The agreement we have reached does
just this.
One of the most cost effective means of reducing net
emissions for many countries will be to enhance greenhouse
sinks -- in particular, forests.
So the second point which I will propose in Rio is a major
new initiative to protect and enhance the world's forests.
The benefits of forests are many -- they filter the air and
water; they provide products from timber and fuelwood to
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ingredients for Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream; they sequester carbon;
and they provide habitat for all manner of living things.
Tropical forests cover just seven percent of the world's
surface -- yet they are home to more than half the world's
species. And forest loss today contributes about 20 percent of
net man made carbon dioxide emissions.
We can jump start progress on addressing global warming and
protecting the biological diversity of the earth with a single
forceful step on behalf of forests -- and we can do it today.
At the Houston Economic Summit two years ago, I proposed to
the leaders of the G-7 countries that we work for a global forest
convention. And it remains my hope that the principles leading
to such a convention will be agreed at Rio.
But I propose today to move ahead in advance of that formal
convention. At Rio, I will ask the other industrialized
countries of the world to join me in doubling worldwide forests
assistance. The goal of this initiative would be to stabilize
world forest cover by the end of this decade.
About $1.35 billion dollars a year are now provided
worldwide in forest assistance. I propose to double this amount
to $2.7 billion. As a downpayment, the U.S. will increase its
bilateral forest assistance by 150 million dollars next year.
Forests today are under stress. In the last decade,
tropical forests have disappeared at a rate of over 40 million
acres a year.
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This initiative would reverse that trend. The assistance
can be provided through existing bilateral or multilateral
mechanisms. And recipient countries could propose new projects.
The plan is to encourage investor countries to in effect bid
on the most effective projects. This down payment on forests
will use a market mechanism to achieve the greatest environmental
return -- because investments will flow to the projects with the
greatest marginal benefit in terms of decreased net emissions or
critical habitat preserved.
( (We will also act to get our own house in order. We will
push Congress to fund our program -- the world's largest
reforestation effort -- to plant a billion trees a year. And
this week, the Forest Service will adopt new rules to end the
clearcutting of our national forests as an acceptable forest
practice.) )
Saving the forests may be the most effective immediate step
the world can take -- but it is not the only one.
The history of the world has been to benefit from
technology. Technology has made us more productive, and raised
our standard of living. In the U.S., technology has helped us
cut pollution, and become more energy efficient as well.
That's one reason that my budget includes an investment of
almost a billion dollars in developing the new energy and
efficiency related technologies of tomorrow.
It is time for a new generation of clean growth -- the
world over. We need a quantum leap in the world's develop,
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fueled by new, more energy efficient technology -- and yes, I
hope much of it will be American technology.
In preparation for the UNCED summit, I met with the Business
Council for Sustainable Development -- businessmen from around
the world who sense the opportunity presented by a partnership
between businesses and governments oriented toward cleaner, more
efficient development.
I am pleased to note that hundreds of American businessmen
will be travelling to Rio for this conference. I want the
opportunities facing them -- and the benefits their goods and
services can provide to the rest of the world -- to be long
lasting.
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So the third part of our plan is to support a broad program
of technology cooperation at Rio -- and afterwards.
Specifically, I propose to create a Technology Cooperation Corps.
This Corps would be teams of U.S. businessmen and women who, with
institutional support from the government, would investigate the
needs of countries around the world for environmentally sound
technology, and knock down the barriers to making it available.
The need for an ongoing program of technology cooperation
underscores the point that our ability to address global
environmental challenges is evolving -- as indeed is our
understanding of the challenges themselves.
So the fourth point of any program for a cleaner future must
involve a continued program of research and understanding. This
year, we are requesting over $1.4 billion for the U.S. Global
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Change Research Program -- that's more than half the money spent
on climate research in the entire world.
We want to make sure that this work is useful. That was the
point behind our restructuring of the EOS program last year -- to
get results faster, cheaper, and better. That's what Dan Goldin
is driving for throughout NASA. Today, I am signing a National
Space Policy Directive, developed by Vice President Quayle's
Space Council, that will place us firmly on this path. By using
new technology and smaller satellites, we can move up the
timetable for obtaining critical data on global change.
The directive does something else -- it formalizes our
policy of making this data available and affordable for
scientists and researchers from the public and private sector
from all around the world.
We believe in sharing the benefits of our earth observation
system. -- and I will take that message to Rio. To make that
message concrete, we will distribute at UNCED, at no cost,
thousands of copies of computer disks -- each with over a billion
bytes of data -- with our best information on greenhouse effects.
And upon our return, the U.S. will open this year a Global
Change Research Information Office to disseminate this
information to governments, businesses, and scientists.
UNCED not only holds out the promise of ushering in an era
of sustainable development; it gives us the chance to help launch
a new generation of clean growth.
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These four steps -- the preparation of solid action plans;
a
dramatic first step to protect and enhance forests; cooperation
in deploying cleaner, more efficient technology; and an ongoing
program to develop and share sound science -- can help us seize
that opportunity long after the speeches in Rio have been given
and the conference is over.
Our predecessors who met at Stockholm had the gift of
foresight. They explicitly called for the discussion at Rio to
be about both environment and development. They knew, back then,
that the two were inextricably linked.
Only a growing economy which provides hope for the future
can generate the resources and the will to manage natural assets
for the longer term and the common good. But only assets which
are so managed can support the growth on which so much human hope
is hinged. By definition, for development be successful in the
long-term, it must be sustainable.
They couldn't have known how clear the lessons of history
would be in the intervening two decades. How it would be
revealed for all to see, when the pollution spawned by
totalitarianism in Eastern Europe and for former Soviet Union was
exposed to the world, that only free markets and democratic
systems provide the accountability necessary for a clean
environment.
They couldn't have known that, as the leaders of the world
prepared to gather for this next earth summit, the specter of
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nuclear war -- with its unthinkable destruction -- would be
calmed as never before in our postwar history.
They couldn't have envisioned that, with a world at peace,
a
more knowledgeable public, and a commitment from the public and
private sectors of virtually every country, those who would be
coming to Rio would be poised to launch a new generation of clean
growth.
The signers of the Stockholm declaration called the
protection and improvement of the environment "the urgent desire
of all peoples." They could never have known how far we'd come
in these two decades -- and how much further we'd have the
potential to go.
Thank you, God bless you, and God bless the United States of
America.
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PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS: ENVIRONMENTAL ADDRESS
SUBJECT:
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PHILLIP D. BRADY
Assistant to the President
and Staff Secretary
(OCA)
May 29, 1992
COMMENTS ON THE ENVIRONMENTAL ADDRESS
Although this is clearly a serious and substantive speech, it
lacks the very sense of leadership that it claims is SO
important.
The real message of the speech -- that freedom and accountability
in our system is what allows us to protect the environment -- is
buried 13 pages deep. What precedes it does not make an argument
about freedom, leadership, and responsibility for the
environment. Instead the speech is almost obsequious in its
deference to "the Stockholm Declaration," the Chantilly
negotiations, UNCED, and other pieces of internationlism.
This should be a speech about why the environment is important to
America -- and why the American system is best equipped to lead
the world in this area. In fact, the Goddard Space Center is
proof -- if proof were needed -- that a system that values
growth, technology, and innovation contributes to the protection
of the environment.
I understand the need for the President to claim credit for his
accomplishments in protecting the environment. But it all sounds
so unpresidential. The lengthy chronology of environmental
milestones that fills the first six pages in neither newsworthy
nor inspiring.
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MONDAY, JUNE 1, 1992
2:00 p.m.
Thank you, Administrator Dan Goldin, for that introduction.
((Senator Mikulski) ((Administrator Reilly)) :
You know, in just over a month on the job, Dan Goldin has
supervised the recovery of a satellite on Endeavor's maiden
cyage, won a vote to save the space station on the floor of the
House, and launched his own "cultural revolution" at NASA. I'd
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Twenty years ago this month, the leaders of the world
gathered in Sweden to talk about the human environment.
The Stockholm Declaration they adopted had a simple
conclusion, that: through fuller knowledge and wiser action,
WC: can achieve for ourselves and our posterity a better life in
an environment more in keeping with human needs and hopes."
yodern day (EPA)
That meeting occurred when thevenvironmental movement was in
its infancy. Later that year, the first Clean Water Act passed
comprehensive (DOE)
the United States Congress. Our EPA at the time was one year
old. America, like 50 many nations around the world, was just
beginning to face up to the consequences of unmitigated
pollution.
Back then, DDT levels showing up in wildlife around the
Great Lakes were eight times what they are today. PCBs were six
times as prevalent. Thousands of miles of rivers and streams
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were not fit for swimming or fishing. Sulfur dioxide and lead
clogged the lungs of city dwellers. The Cayohoga River in
Cleveland actually caught fire spontaneously -- prompting the
songwriter Randy Newman to pen the "Burn on, big river, burn
on. It
lyrics
Much has occurred since those early days of
environmentalism. And much of what has occurred happened first
in the United States of America. In just two decades, we've
passed a comprehensive set Facture of statutes to protect our
air, our water, and our wildlife -- to expand our natural areas
and to clean up the lingering legacy of hazardous wastes. Today,
America is a safer, cleaner nation -- and our laws have served as
a model for environmental laws the world over.
We were the first nation to recognize the danger of CFC
emissions by eliminating aerosol propellants, which we did in
1978. other nations are now following suit as they meet their
obligations under an international agreement to phase out CFCs.
We were the first nation, back in 1975, to adopt catalytic
converters to reduce emissions from our cars and trucks --
European nations are now in the process of adopting them.
In 1982, we began phasing out lead from American gasoline.
Today, ambient levels of lead in our air have been cut by 95
percent. Now, several other nations are looking at the
possibility of cutting back on leaded gasoline as a means of
meeting their clean air objectives.
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even 35 percent thoughour GDP, population thas increased 12 perent, about
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since 1977, carbon monoxide levels in our air have been cut
30 percent; ozone 20 percent; particulate 25 percent; and sulfur
dioxide 18 percent. The discharge of suspended solids into our
waterways was cut by over 80 percent. And as of 1988, 96 percent
of our lakes and reservoirs were found to be fishable and
swimmable.
(Juterior)
Throughout these two decades since Stockholm, then, America
has been the leager in protecting the environments protection.
in Corefront dE
In the last four years, we have worked to extend that record
Amendments (DOE)
-- on every front. The 1990 Clean Air Actwill cut emissions of
sulfur dioxide in half, emissions of toxic chemicals by ninety
percent, and the number of U.S. cities not meeting smog and
carbon monoxide standards from over a hundred to a handful by the
end of the decade.
We've signed new laws to prevent oil spills by requiring
double hulls on oil tankers, to protect the flyways of migratory
birds, and to help protect our largest rainforest -- the Tongass.
We have fined and jailed polluters in record numbers; placed a
(Interior)
moratorium on oil several and gas drilling in precious areas of our
coasts; added - billion dollars to our system of parks,
wildlife refuges, forests, and public lands; launched a
reforestation plan to plant a billion trees a year; and signed
international agreements on everything from the transboundary
movement of hazardous wastes to the protection of the African
elephant.
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Next week, dozens of heads of state will again gather -- in
Rio de Janeiro. I will join them, because the United states has
a stake -- indeed, every nation has a stake -- in a safer,
cleaner world.
and an economically (Interior) vibrant
And I suppose it is only fitting to come to this center, on
the eve of the Rio summit, to talk about my vision for building
such a world. To talk about what we have accomplished -- and
what we hope to accomplish To talk about the lessons learned
since Stockholm, and about the road ahead.
Goddard, through its invaluable contributions to the
understanding and observation of our earth, has in a very real
sense made progress at the UNCED meeting possible.
Your work has revealed some fundamental truths about the
environmental challenges we face.
A spacecraft created at Goddard provided the world with its
first image of Earth from space. In one breathtaking photo, you
underlined what volumes of words could not have described
better -- that the earth and its atmosphere are our common
many of
inheritance. That If solutions to the problems facing the earth
must involve every nation -- because those problems are global in
(Interior)
scope. Global problems require global solutions.
It was Goddard scientists who developed the Upper
Atmospheric Research Satellite -- UARS --- launched last year,
which is providing us new insight about the ozone layer. The
buildup of chlorine in the upper atmosphere, and the depletion of
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ozone, are long term problems, built up over many years. They
will require sustained commitment to solve.
And the lion's share of the science that the world is using
(DOE)
to understand our climate comes from a program with its heart and
a program to which will
provide
soul right hereby the U.S. Global Change Research Program, built
data
key
the Earth Observing System that Goddard is developing. We
are still learning about the enormously complex challenges this
global climatechange (DOE)
planet faces, from global warming to El Nino, from biodiversity
to desertification. To make the right decisions, we will need to
learn as we go. So we need a sustained investment in the
decisions (BOE) E)
knowledge base that makes sound policymak ng possible.
At the end of the day, that's what the Rio summit is all
about.
solice Making decisions. And taking action.
Frankly, the United States of America has brought a very no-
nonsense approach to the preparations for Rio. We have made it
clear that what matters to us, what matters from the perspective
of the global environment, and what should matter to those who
care about its health, is action.
From the beginning of the climate change negotiations which
formed the centerpiece of this conference, we made clear this
bias for action.
We offered to host the first round of negotiations at
Chantilly, Virginia in 1991. And at that time, we laid on the
table an action agenda on climate change -- with specific policy
proposals we were implementing or prepared to implement, and with
our specific calculations concerning how much we expected to
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reduce greenhouse gas emissions as a result of those policies.
The result was endouraging. We found that our expected year 2000
close to
greenhouse gas emission levels were expected to be
our
(Interior)
current levels in spite of increased economic activity.
When the science changed, indioating that outting CFCs would
not reduce warming as much as we had thought, we supplemented
that plan. Earlier this year, we added a whole range of
To
additional measures from EPA's Green Lights program to the
the range of energy efficiency measures contained in my National
Energy strategy.
We again laid our plan on the table -- in
specific detail -- showing that our policies would reduce U.S.
net greenhouse gas emissions by 125 to 200 million tons a year by
the year 2000.
except the Netherlands- (EPA)
No other nation has laid out such a specific plan of action.
And that explains our strategy during the negotiations. That
every nation should have a plan of action, with a focus on
results -- not rhetoric.
It may not have been widely reported in the press, but in
area after area, the U.S. laid down specific proposals, and
worked for their adoption. Forests. Oceans. Living Marine
Resources. Public participation Financing.
Make no mistake: America, has not retreated, and will not
commitment to
retreat from its role in protecting the global
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environment while ensuring vibrant economic activity.
over
Today, the United States spends about two peroent bE ite Gross
National Product -- over billion dollars per year --
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protecting the environment from pollution, That investment is
scheduled to rise.
(DOE)
That continuing commitment of resources and national energy
reflects one central tenet of our policy -- that what counts is
performance over the long haul. We go to Rio with the
best words, but will go with the policies.
More importantly, the commitment to act must not end at
UNCED. If Rio is a one-shot deal, it will have been a failure.
So when I travel to Brazil next week, I will bring with me
several proposals to extend the commitment of the world community
into the future. We need not just the will to meet, but the will
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to act.
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To make sure that the process and the institutional capacity
Invecessary!
for follow-up exists we will endorse a continuing entity under
the auspices of the United Nations -- a Council on Sustainable
(BOE)
Development -- to help foster the international cooperation we
will need to tackle these gropal problems the twin avitenmental imperatives of
To strengthen the will to act, I will offer a four point Indity sustained and
plan of cooperation.
economic
First with respect to climate. The signing of a convention growth.
that calls for action plans is just a first step. Now countries
must move quickly to develop them. So I will join in proposing a
"prompt start" to implementation of climate action plans.
The United States is already well along the road to not only
developing but implementing its action plan. we stand ready
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to assist others -- particularly the developing countries -- in
preparing theirs.
The participation of these developing countries is vital.
Over the next three decades, carbon dioxide emissions from the
developing countries are projected to triple. While today these
nations account for about one quarter of the world's emissions,
by the year 2025, they will contribute almost half. So any
agreement which ignores the need to include them is destined to
fail.
To begin this process, the United States has already
committed to help fund country studies that can help these
nations identify the sources of emissions and the best means of
ourbing them.
We have insisted throughout the negotiations that any
solution to the climate change problem must be comprehensive --
that is it should allow for the inclusion of all sources and
(Indersor)
and reservoirs
sinks of greenhouse gases. The agreement we have reached does
just this.
One 6f the most cost effective means of reducing net
(Interior)
emissions for many countries will be to enhance greenhouse
sinks -- in particular, Consultion by limiting land conversion the by
conserve reservairs
So the second point which I will propose in Rio is a major
interestinglytivity of
agriculture
new initiative to protect and enhance the world's forests.
and forestry,
The benefits of forests are many. they filter the air and
water, they provide products from timber and fuelwood to
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ingredients for Ben and Jorryle Ace Cream; they sequester carbon;
and they provide habitat for all manner of living things
Tropical forests cover just seven percent of the world's
surface -- yet they are home to more than half the world's
species. And forest loss today contributes about 20 percent of
net man made carbon dioxide emissions
We can jump start progress on addressing global warming and
protecting the biological diversity of the earth with a single
forceful step on behalf of forests -- and we can do it today.
At the Houston Economic Summit two years ago, 1 proposed to
the leaders of the G-7 countries that we work for a global forest
convention. And it remains my hope that the principles leading
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The history of the world has been to benefit from
technology. Technology has made us more productive, and raised
our standard of living In the U.S., technology has helped us
cut pollution, and become more energy efficient as well.
That's one reason that my budget includes an investment of
almost a billion dollars in developing the new energy and
efficiency related technologies of tomorrow.
It is time for a new generation of clean growth --- the
world over. We need a quantum leap in the world's develop, ? CEPA
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fueled by now, more energy efficient technology -- and yes, I
hope much of it will be American technology.
In preparation for the UNCED summit, I met with the Business
Council for Sustainable Development -- businessmen from around
the world who sense the opportunity presented by a partnership
between businesses and governments oriented toward cleaner, more
entall. sound (EPA)
I am pleased to note that hundreds of American businessmen
will be travelling to Rio for this conference. I want the
opportunities facing them -- and the benefits their goods and
services can provide to the rest of the world -- to be long
lasting.
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so the thira part of our plan is to support a broad program
of technology cooperation at Rio -- and afterwards.
Specifically, I propose to create a Technology Cooperation Corps.
This Corps would be teams of U.S. businessmen and women who, with
institutional support from the government, would investigate the
needs of countries around the world for environmentally sound
technology, and knock down the barriers to making it available.
The need for an ongoing program of technology cooperation
underscores the point that our ability to address global
environmental challenges is evolving -- as indeed is our
understanding of the challenges themselves.
So the fourth point of any program for a cleaner future must
W hich
brings
involve a continued program of research and understanding, This
us
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year, we are requesting over $1.4 billion for the U.S. Clobal
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Change Research Program -- that's more than half the money spent
on climate research in the entire world.
We want to make sure that this work is useful. That was the
point behind our restructuring of the EOS program last year -- to
get results faster, cheaper, and better. That's what Dan Goldin
is driving for throughout NASA. Today, I am signing a National
Space Policy Directive, developed by Vice President Quayle's
Space Council, that will place us firmly on this path. By using
new technology and smaller satellites, we can move up the
timetable for obtaining critical data on global change.
The directive does something else -- it formalizes our
policy of making this data available and affordable for
scientists and researchers from the public and private sector
from all around the world.
We believe in sharing the benefits of our earth observation
system -- and I will take that message to Rio. To make that
message concrete, we will distribute at UNCED, at no cost,
thousands of copies of computer disks -- each with over a billion
bytes of data -- with our best information on greenhouse effects.
And upon our return, the U.S. will open this year a Global
Change Research Information Office to disseminate this
information to governments, businesses, and scientists.
UNCED not only holds out the promise of ushering in an era
of sustainable development; it gives us the chance to help launch
a new generation of clean growth.
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climate change
These four steps -- the preparation of solid action plans; a
dramatic first step to protect and enhance forests; cooperation
in deploying cleaner, more efficient technology; and an ongoing
program to develop and share sound science -- can help us seize
that opportunity long after the speeches in Rio have been given
and the conference is over.
Our predeceptor who not 35 Stockholm had the gift of
Those who
(EPA)
foreaight. They aplicitly called for the discussion at Rio to
were correct
be about both environment and development
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that the two were inextricably linked.
add
Only a growing economy which provides hope for the future
can generate the resources and the will to manage natural assets
more
for the longer term and the common good. But only assets which
on
are so managed can support the growth on which so much human hope
thomy
is hinged. BY definition, for development be successful in the
long term, it must be sustainable.
They couldn't have known how clear the lessons of history
would be in the intervening two decades. How it would be
revealed for all to see, when the pollution spawned by
totalitarianism in Eastern Europe and for former Soviet Union was
exposed to the world, that only free markets and democratic
systems provide the accountability necessary for a clean
environment.
They couldn't have known that, as the leaders of the world
prepared to gather for this next earth summit, the specter of
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nuclear war -- with its unthinkable destruction - would be
calmed ae never before in our postwar history
They souldn't have envisioned that, with a world at peace, a
more knowledgeable public, and a commitment from the public and
private sectors of virtually every country, those who would be
coming to Rio would be poised to launch a new generation of clean
growth.
The signers of the Stockholm declaration called the
protection and improvement of the environment "the urgent desire
of all peoples." They could never have known how far we'd come
in these two decades -- and how much further we'd have the
potential to go.
Thank you, God bless you, and God bless the United States of
America.
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MONDAY, JUNE 1, 1992
2:00 p.m.
Thank you, Administrator Dan Goldin, for that introduction.
((Senator Mikulski)) ((Administrator Reilly) ) :
You know, in just over a month on the job, Dan Goldin has
supervised the recovery of a satellite on Endeavor's maiden
voyage, won a vote to save the space station on the floor of the
House, and launched his own "cultural revolution" at NASA. I'd
say the "new NASA" is off to a flying start. //
Twenty years ago this month, the leaders of the world
gathered in Sweden to talk about the human environment.
The Stockholm Declaration they adopted had a simple
conclusion, that:
"
through fuller knowledge and wiser action,
we can achieve for ourselves and our posterity a better life in
an environment more in keeping with human needs and hopes."
That meeting occurred when the environmental movement was in
its infancy. Later that year, the first Clean Water Act passed
the United States Congress. Our EPA at the time was one year
old. America, like so many nations around the world, was just
beginning to face up to the consequences of unmitigated
pollution.
Back then, DDT levels showing up in wildlife around the
Great Lakes were eight times what they are today. PCBs were six
times as prevalent. Thousands of miles of rivers and streams
2
were not fit for swimming or fishing. Sulfur dioxide and lead
clogged the lungs of city dwellers. The Cayohoga River in
Cleveland actually caught fire spontaneously -- prompting the
songwriter Randy Newman to pen the song "Burn on, big river, burn
on."
Much has occurred since those early days of
environmentalism. And much of what has occurred happened first
in the United States of America. In just two decades, we've
passed a comprehensive superstructure of statutes to protect our
air, our water, and our wildlife -- to expand our natural areas
and to clean up the lingering legacy of hazardous wastes. Today,
America is a safer, cleaner nation -- and our laws have served as
a model for environmental laws the world over.
We were the first nation to recognize the danger of CFC
emissions by eliminating aerosol propellants, which we did in
1978. Other nations are now following suit as they meet their
obligations under an international agreement to phase out CFCs.
We were the first nation, back in 1975, to adopt catalytic
converters to reduce emissions from our cars and trucks --
European nations are now in the process of adopting them.
In 1982, we began phasing out lead from American gasoline.
Today, ambient levels of lead in our air have been cut by 95
percent. Now, several other nations are looking at the
possibility of cutting back on leaded gasoline as a means of
meeting their clean air objectives.
3
Since 1977, carbon monoxide levels in our air have been cut
30 percent; ozone 20 percent; particulate 25 percent; and sulfur
dioxide 18 percent. The discharge of suspended solids into our
waterways was cut by over 80 percent. And as of 1988, 96 percent
of our lakes and reservoirs were found to be fishable and
swimmable.
Throughout these two decades since Stockholm, then, America
has been the leader in protecting the environment.
In the last four years, we have worked to extend that record
-- on every front. The 1990 Clean Air Act will cut emissions of
sulfur dioxide in half, emissions of toxic chemicals by ninety
percent, and the number of U.S. cities not meeting smog and
carbon monoxide standards from over a hundred to a handful by the
end of the decade.
We've signed new laws to prevent oil spills by requiring
double hulls on oil tankers, to protect the flyways of migratory
birds, and to help protect our largest rainforest -- the Tongass.
We have fined and jailed polluters in record numbers; placed a
moratorium on oil and gas drilling in precious areas of our
coasts; added over a billion dollars to our system of parks,
wildlife refuges, forests, and public lands; launched a
reforestation plan to plant a billion trees a year; and signed
international agreements on everything from the transboundary
movement of hazardous wastes to the protection of the African
elephant.
4
Next week, dozens of heads of state will again gather -- in
Rio de Janeiro. I will join them, because the United States has
a stake -- indeed, every nation has a stake -- in a safer,
cleaner world.
And I suppose it is only fitting to come to this center, on
the eve of the Rio summit, to talk about my vision for building
such a world. To talk about what we have accomplished -- and
what we hope to accomplish. To talk about the lessons learned
since Stockholm, and about the road ahead.
Goddard, through its invaluable contributions to the
understanding and observation of our earth, has in a very real
sense made progress at the UNCED meeting possible.
Your work has revealed some fundamental truths about the
environmental challenges we face.
A spacecraft created at Goddard provided the world with its
first image of Earth from space. In one breathtaking photo, you
underlined what volumes of words could not have described
better -- that the earth and its atmosphere are our common
inheritance. That any solution to the problems facing the earth
must involve every nation -- because those problems are global in
scope.
It was Goddard scientists who developed the Upper
Atmospheric Research Satellite -- UARS --- launched last year,
which is providing us new insight about the ozone layer. The
buildup of chlorine in the upper atmosphere, and the depletion of
5
ozone, are long-term problems, built up over many years. They
will require sustained commitment to solve.
And the lion's share of the science that the world is using
to understand our climate comes from a program with its heart and
soul right here -- the U.S. Global Change Research Program, built
around the Earth Observing System that Goddard is developing. We
are still learning about the enormously complex challenges this
planet faces -- from global warming to El Nino, from biodiversity
to desertification. To make the right decisions, we will need to
learn as we go. So we need a sustained investment in the
knowledge base that makes sound policymaking possible.
At the end of the day, that's what the Rio summit is all
about. Policy. Making decisions. And taking action.
Frankly, the United States of America has brought a very no-
nonsense approach to the preparations for Rio. We have made it
clear that what matters to us, what matters from the perspective
of the global environment, and what should matter to those who
care about its health, is action.
From the beginning of the climate change negotiations which
formed the centerpiece of this conference, we made clear this
bias for action.
We offered to host the first round of negotiations at
Chantilly, Virginia in 1991. And at that time, we laid on the
table an action agenda on climate change -- with specific policy
proposals we were implementing or prepared to implement, and with
our specific calculations concerning how much we expected to
6
reduce greenhouse gas emissions as a result of those policies.
The result was encouraging. We found that our expected year 2000
greenhouse gas emission levels were expected to be below our
current levels.
When the science changed, indicating that cutting CFCs would
not reduce warming as much as we had thought, we supplemented
that plan. Earlier this year, we added a whole range of
additional measures -- from EPA's Green Lights program to the
range of energy efficiency measures contained in my National
Energy Strategy. We again laid our plan on the table -- in
specific detail -- showing that our policies would reduce U.S.
net greenhouse gas emissions by 125 to 200 million tons a year by
the year 2000.
No other nation has laid out such a specific plan of action.
And that explains our strategy during the negotiations. That
every nation should have a plan of action, with a focus on
results -- not rhetoric.
It may not have been widely reported in the press, but in
area after area, the U.S. laid down specific proposals, and
worked for their adoption. Forests. Oceans. Living Marine
Resources. Public participation. Financing.
Make no mistake: America has not retreated, and will not
retreat from its leadership role in protecting the global
environment.
Today, the United States spends about two percent its Gross
National Product -- over 100 billion dollars per year --
7
protecting the environment from pollution. That investment is
scheduled to rise.
That continuing commitment of resources and national energy
reflects one central tenet of our policy -- that what counts is
performance over the long haul. We may not go to Rio with the
best words, but we will go with the best policies.
More importantly, the commitment to act must not end at
UNCED. If Rio is a one-shot deal, it will have been a failure.
So when I travel to Brazil next week, I will bring with me
several proposals to extend the commitment of the world community
into the future. We need not just the will to meet, but the will
to act.
To make sure that the process and the institutional capacity
for follow-up exists, we will endorse a continuing entity under
the auspices of the United Nations -- a Council on Sustainable
Development -- to help foster the international cooperation we
will need to tackle these global problems.
To strengthen the will to act, I will offer a four point
plan of cooperation.
First with respect to climate. The signing of a convention
that calls for action plans is just a first step. Now countries
must move quickly to develop them. So I will join in proposing a
"prompt start" to implementation of climate action plans.
The United States is already well along the road to not only
developing but implementing its action plan. But we stand ready
8
to assist others -- particularly the developing countries -- in
preparing theirs.
The participation of these developing countries is vital.
Over the next three decades, carbon dioxide emissions from the
developing countries are projected to triple. While today these
nations account for about one quarter of the world's emissions,
by the year 2025, they will contribute almost half. So any
agreement which ignores the need to include them is destined to
fail.
To begin this process, the United States has already
committed to help fund country studies that can help these
nations identify the sources of emissions and the best means of
curbing them.
We have insisted throughout the negotiations that any
solution to the climate change problem must be comprehensive --
that is, it should allow for the inclusion of all sources and
sinks of greenhouse gases. The agreement we have reached does
just this.
One of the most cost effective means of reducing net
emissions for many countries will be to enhance greenhouse
sinks -- in particular, forests.
So the second point which I will propose in Rio is a major
new initiative to protect and enhance the world's forests.
The benefits of forests are many -- they filter the air and
water; they provide products from timber and fuelwood to
9
ingredients for Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream; they sequester carbon;
and they provide habitat for all manner of living things.
Tropical forests cover just seven percent of the world's
surface -- yet they are home to more than half the world's
species. And forest loss today contributes about 20 percent of
net man made carbon dioxide emissions.
We can jump start progress on addressing global warming and
protecting the biological diversity of the earth with a single
forceful step on behalf of forests -- and we can do it today.
At the Houston Economic Summit two years ago, I proposed to
the leaders of the G-7 countries that we work for a global forest
convention. And it remains my hope that the principles leading
to such a convention will be agreed at Rio.
But I propose today to move ahead in advance of that formal
convention. At Rio, I will ask the other industrialized
countries of the world to join me in doubling worldwide forests
assistance. The goal of this initiative would be to stabilize
world forest cover by the end of this decade.
About $1.35 billion dollars a year are now provided
worldwide in forest assistance. I propose to double this amount
to $2.7 billion. As a downpayment, the U.S. will increase its
Unable
bilateral forest assistance by 150 million dollars next year.
to substantia
Forests today are under stress. In the last decade,
this figure
tropical forests have disappeared at a rate of over 40 million
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acres a year.
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This initiative would reverse that trend. The assistance
can be provided through existing bilateral or multilateral
mechanisms. And recipient countries could propose new projects.
The plan is to encourage investor countries to in effect bid
on the most effective projects. This down payment on forests
will use a market mechanism to achieve the greatest environmental
return -- because investments will flow to the projects with the
greatest marginal benefit in terms of decreased net emissions or
critical habitat preserved.
( (We will also act to get our own house in order. We will
push Congress to fund our program -- the world's largest
reforestation effort -- to plant a billion trees a year. And
this week, the Forest Service will adopt new rules to end the
clearcutting of our national forests as an acceptable forest
practice. ))
Saving the forests may be the most effective immediate step
the world can take -- but it is not the only one.
The history of the world has been to benefit from
technology. Technology has made us more productive, and raised
our standard of living. In the U.S., technology has helped us
cut pollution, and become more energy efficient as well.
That's one reason that my budget includes an investment of
almost a billion dollars in developing the new energy and
efficiency related technologies of tomorrow.
It is time for a new generation of clean growth -- the
world over. We need a quantum leap in the world's develop,
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fueled by new, more energy efficient technology -- and yes, I
hope much of it will be American technology.
In preparation for the UNCED summit, I met with the Business
Council for Sustainable Development -- businessmen from around
the world who sense the opportunity presented by a partnership
between businesses and governments oriented toward cleaner, more
efficient development.
I am pleased to note that hundreds of American businessmen
will be travelling to Rio for this conference. I want the
opportunities facing them -- and the benefits their goods and
services can provide to the rest of the world -- to be long
lasting.
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So the third part of our plan is to support a broad program
of technology cooperation at Rio -- and afterwards.
Specifically, I propose to create a Technology Cooperation Corps.
This Corps would be teams of U.S. businessmen and women who, with
institutional support from the government, would investigate the
needs of countries around the world for environmentally sound
technology, and knock down the barriers to making it available.
The need for an ongoing program of technology cooperation
underscores the point that our ability to address global
environmental challenges is evolving -- as indeed is our
understanding of the challenges themselves.
So the fourth point of any program for a cleaner future must
involve a continued program of research and understanding. This
year, we are requesting over $1.4 billion for the U.S. Global
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Change Research Program -- that's more than half the money spent
on climate research in the entire world.
We want to make sure that this work is useful. That was the
point behind our restructuring of the EOS program last year -- to
get results faster, cheaper, and better. That's what Dan Goldin
is driving for throughout NASA. Today, I am signing a National
Space Policy Directive, developed by Vice President Quayle's
Space Council, that will place us firmly on this path. By using
new technology and smaller satellites, we can move up the
timetable for obtaining critical data on global change.
The directive does something else -- it formalizes our
policy of making this data available and affordable for
scientists and researchers from the public and private sector
from all around the world.
We believe in sharing the benefits of our earth observation
system -- and I will take that message to Rio. To make that
message concrete, we will distribute at UNCED, at no cost,
thousands of copies of computer disks -- each with over a billion
bytes of data -- with our best information on greenhouse effects.
And upon our return, the U.S. will open this year a Global
Change Research Information Office to disseminate this
information to governments, businesses, and scientists.
UNCED not only holds out the promise of ushering in an era
of sustainable development; it gives us the chance to help launch
a new generation of clean growth.
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These four steps -- the preparation of solid action plans; a
dramatic first step to protect and enhance forests; cooperation
in deploying cleaner, more efficient technology; and an ongoing
program to develop and share sound science -- can help us seize
that opportunity long after the speeches in Rio have been given
and the conference is over.
Our predecessors who met at Stockholm had the gift of
foresight. They explicitly called for the discussion at Rio to
be about both environment and development. They knew, back then,
that the two were inextricably linked.
Only a growing economy which provides hope for the future
can generate the resources and the will to manage natural assets
for the longer term and the common good. But only assets which
are so managed can support the growth on which so much human hope
is hinged. By definition, for development be successful in the
long-term, it must be sustainable.
They couldn't have known how clear the lessons of history
would be in the intervening two decades. How it would be
revealed for all to see, when the pollution spawned by
totalitarianism in Eastern Europe and for former Soviet Union was
exposed to the world, that only free markets and democratic
systems provide the accountability necessary for a clean
environment.
They couldn't have known that, as the leaders of the world
prepared to gather for this next earth summit, the specter of
14
nuclear war -- with its unthinkable destruction -- would be
calmed as never before in our postwar history.
They couldn't have envisioned that, with a world at peace,
a
more knowledgeable public, and a commitment from the public and
private sectors of virtually every country, those who would be
coming to Rio would be poised to launch a new generation of clean
growth.
The signers of the Stockholm declaration called the
protection and improvement of the environment "the urgent desire
of all peoples." They could never have known how far we'd come
in these two decades -- and how much further we'd have the
potential to go.
Thank you, God bless you, and God bless the United States of
America.
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2:00 p.m.
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supervised the recovery of a satellite on Endeavor's maiden
voyage, won a vote to save the space station on the floor of the
House, and launched his own "cultural revolution" at NASA. I'd
say the "new NASA" is off to a flying start. //
Twenty years ago this month, the leaders of the world
gathered in Sweden to talk about the human environment.
(June, 1972)
The Stockholm Declaration they adopted had a simple
conclusion,
that:
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through fuller knowledge and wiser action,
we can achieve for ourselves and our posterity a better life in
an environment more in keeping with human needs and hopes."
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its infancy. Later that year, the Congress first Clean Water Act passed
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environmental challenges we face.
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A spacecraft created at Goddard provided the world with its
first image of Earth from space. In one breathtaking photo, you
underlined what volumes of words could not have described
better -- that the earth and its atmosphere are our common
inheritance. That any solution to the problems facing the earth
must involve every nation -- because those problems are global in
scope.
It was Goddard scientists who developed the Upper
Atmospher e Research Satellite -- UARS --- launched last year,
which is providing us new insight about the ozone layer. The
buildup of chlorine in the upper atmosphere, and the depletion of
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ozone, are long-term problems, built up over many years. They
will require sustained commitment to solve.
And the lion's share of the science that the world is using
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soul right here -- the U.S. Global Change Research Program, built
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about. Policy. Making policy decisions. And taking action.
Frankly, the United States of America has brought a very no-
nonsense approach to the preparations for Rio. We have made it
clear that what matters to us, what matters from the perspective
of the global environment, and what should matter to those who
care about its health, is action.
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formed the centerpiece of this conference, we made clear this
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The result was encouraging. We found that our expected year 2000
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current levels.
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Energy Strategy. We again laid our plan on the table -- in
specific detail -- showing that our policies would reduce U.S.
net greenhouse gas emissions by 125 to 200 million tons a year by
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No other nation has laid out such a specific plan of action.
And that explains our strategy during the negotiations. That
every nation should have a plan of action, with a focus on
results -- not rhetoric.
It may not have been widely reported in the press, but in
area after area, the U.S. laid down specific proposals, and
worked for their adoption. Forests. Oceans. Living Marine
Resources. Public participation. Financing.
Make no mistake: America has not retreated, and will not
retreat from its leadership role in protecting the global
environment.
Today, the United States spends about two percent its Gross
National Product -- over 100 billion dollars per year --
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protecting the environment from pollution. That investment is
scheduled to rise.
That continuing commitment of resources and national energy
reflects one central tenet of our policy -- that what counts is
performance over the long haul. We may not go to Rio with the
(Tstet)
best words, but we will go with the best policies.
from
research (we flient)
More importantly, the commitment to act must not end at
UNCED. If Rio is a one-shot deal, it will have been a failure.
take
So when I travel to Brazil next week, I will bring with me
several proposals to extend the commitment of the world community
into the future. We need not just the will to meet, but the will
to act.
To make sure that the process and the institutional capacity
for follow-up exists, we will endorse a continuing entity under
the auspices of the United Nations -- a Council on Sustainable
Development -- to help foster the international cooperation we
will need to tackle these global problems.
To strengthen the will to act, I will offer a four point
plan of cooperation.
First with respect to climate. The signing of a convention
that calls for action plans is just a first step. Now countries
must move quickly to develop them. So I will join in proposing a
stet
"prompt start! to implementation of climate action plans.
The United States is already well along the road to not only
developing but implementing its action plan. But we stand ready
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to assist others -- particularly the developing countries -- in
preparing theirs.
The participation of these developing countries is vital.
Over the next three decades, carbon dioxide emissions from the
developing countries are projected to triple. While today these
nations account for about one quarter of the world's emissions,
by the year 2025, they will contribute almost half. So any
agreement which ignores the need to include them is destined to
fail.
To begin this process, the United States has already
Bill Piston
committed to help fund country studies that can help these
nations identify the sources of emissions and the best means of
curbing them.
We have insisted throughout the negotiations that any
solution to the climate change problem must be comprehensive --
that is, it should allow for the inclusion of all sources and
sinks of greenhouse gases. The agreement we have reached does
just this.
One of the most cost effective means of reducing net
emissions for many countries will be to enhance greenhouse
sinks -- in particular, forests.
So the second point which I will propose in Rio is a major
new initiative to protect and enhance the world's forests.
The benefits of forests are many -- they filter the air and
water; they provide products from timber and fuelwood to
Do not mention a brand
name. Also they're LIBERAL
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ice cream makers!
ingredients for Ben and Jerry' Ice Cream; they sequester carbon;
and they provide habitat for all manner of living things.
Tropical forests cover just seven percent of the world's
surface -- yet they are home to more than half the world's
species. And Deforestation forest loss today contributes about 20 percent of
net man made carbon dioxide emissions.
We can jump start progress on addressing global warming and
protecting the biological diversity of the earth with a single
forceful step on behalf of forests -- and we can do it today.
At the Houston Economic Summit two years ago, I proposed to
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convention. And it remains my hope that the principles leading
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to such a convention will be agreed at Rio.
But I propose today to move ahead in advance of that formal
convention. At Rio, I will ask the other industrialized
countries of the world to join me in doubling worldwide forests
assistance. The goal of this initiative would be to stabilize
EPA suggests: early
world forest cover by the end of this decade
next decade
About $1.35 billion dollars a year are now provided
worldwide in forest assistance. I propose to double this amount
to $2.7 billion. As a downpayment, the U.S. will increase its
bilateral forest assistance by 150 million dollars next year.
Forests today are under stress. In the last decade,
tropical forests have disappeared at a rate of over 40 million
acres a year.
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This initiative would reverse that trend. The assistance
can be provided through existing bilateral or multilateral
mechanisms. And recipient countries could propose new projects.
The plan is to encourage investor countries to in effect bid
on the most effective projects. This down payment on forests
will use a market mechanism to achieve the greatest environmental
return -- because investments will flow to the projects with the
greatest marginal benefit in terms of decreased net emissions or
critical habitat preserved.
( (We will also act to get our own house in order. We will
push Congress to fund our program -- the world's largest
reforestation effort -- to plant a billion trees a year. And
announce
this week, the Forest Service will adopt new rules to end the
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as a standard commercial timber harvest practice in National
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clearcutting of our national forests as an acceptable forest
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practice. ))
Saving the forests may be the most effective immediate step
the world can take -- but it is not the only one.
The history of the world has been to benefit from
technology. Technology has made us more productive, and raised
our standard of living. In the U.S., technology has helped us
cut pollution, and become more energy efficient as well.
That's one reason that my budget includes an investment of
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almost a billion dollars in developing the new energy and
table
efficiency related technologies of tomorrow.
It is time for a new generation of clean growth -- the
world over. We need a quantum leap in the world's develop ment,
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fueled by new, more energy efficient technology -- and yes, I
hope much of it will be American technology.
In preparation for the UNCED summit, I met with the Business
Council for Sustainable Development -- businessmen from around
the world who sense the opportunity presented by a partnership
between businesses and governments oriented toward cleaner, more
efficient development.
I am pleased to note that hundreds of American businessmen
will be travelling to Rio for this conference. I want the
opportunities facing them -- and the benefits their goods and
services can provide to the rest of the world -- to be long
lasting.
-
So the third part of our plan is to support a broad program
of technology cooperation at Rio -- and afterwards.
Specifically, I propose to create a Technology Cooperation Corps.
This Corps would be teams of U.S. businessmen and women who, with
institutional support from the government, would investigate the
needs of countries around the world for environmentally sound
technology, and knock down the barriers to making it available.
The need for an ongoing program of technology cooperation
underscores the point that our ability to address global
environmental challenges is evolving -- as indeed is our
understanding of the challenges themselves.
So the fourth point of any program for a cleaner future must
involve a continued program of research and understanding. This
Budertz
year, we are requesting over $1.4 billion for the U.S. Global
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the most advanced program on global
Budget.
Change Research Program -- that's more than half the money spent
change research issues the world.
on climate research in the entire world.
We want to make sure that this work is useful. That was the
point behind our restructuring of the EOS program last year -- to
get results faster, cheaper, and better. That's what Dan Goldin
amouncing I have signed
is driving for throughout NASA. Today, I am signing a National
The National
Space Policy Directive, developed by Vice President Quayle's
Space Council, that will place us firmly on this path. By using
new technology and smaller satellites, we can move up the
timetable for obtaining critical data on global change.
The directive does something else -- it formalizes our
policy of making this data available and affordable for
scientists and researchers from the public and private sector
from all around the world.
We believe in sharing the benefits of our earth observation No one
No one
system -- and I will take that message to Rio. To make that
even
hasard hasever ever
message concrete, we will distribute at UNCED, at no cost,
heard has
stet? ofthis
thousands of copies of computer disks
each
with
over
a
billion
bytes of data with our best information on greenhouse effects.
this year
And upon our return, the U.S. will open this year a Global
NASA
Change Research Information Office to disseminate this
information to governments, businesses, and scientists.
UNCED not only holds out the promise of ushering in an era
of sustainable development; it gives us the chance to help launch
a new generation of clean growth.
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These four steps -- the preparation of solid action plans; a
dramatic first step to protect and enhance forests; cooperation
in deploying cleaner, more efficient technology; and an ongoing
program to develop and share sound science -- can help us seize
that opportunity long after the speeches in Rio have been given
and the conference is over.
Our predecessors who met at Stockholm had the gift of
foresight. They explicitly called for the discussion at Rio to
be about both environment and development. They knew, back then,
that the two were inextricably linked.
Only a growing economy which provides hope for the future
can generate the resources and the will to manage natural assets
for the longer term and the common good. But only assets which
are so managed can support the growth on which so much human hope
is hinged. By definition, for development be successful in the
long-term, it must be sustainable.
They couldn't have known how clear the lessons of history
would be in the intervening two decades. How it would be
revealed for all to see, when the pollution spawned by
the
totalitarianism in Eastern Europe and for former Soviet Union was
exposed to the world, that only free markets and democratic
systems provide the accountability necessary for a clean
environment.
They couldn't have known that, as the leaders of the world
prepared to gather for this next earth summit, the specter of
14
nuclear war -- with its unthinkable destruction -- would be
calmed as never before in our postwar history.
They couldn't have envisioned that, with a world at peace, a
more knowledgeable public, and a commitment from the public and
private sectors of virtually every country, those who would be
coming to Rio would be poised to launch a new generation of clean
growth.
The signers of the Stockholm declaration called the
protection and improvement of the environment "the urgent desire
of the all peoples AX They could never have known how far we'd come
of the whole world."
in these two decades -- and how much further we'd have the
potential to go.
Thank you, God bless you X and God bless the United States of
America.
######
Dan- there is no mention of the oceanography
satellite (TOPEX) the PORIS will be viewing
prior to the speech.
from Jeannie
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h crime bill
Now, so far I've talked about what the
up about taking our sound message of values
spots, "I'm
Government can do. But as I finish here, let
and opportunity to the American people in
order." We
me just say the more I am in this wonderfully
the fall.
It's tougher
challenging job-and again, I'm very grateful
So let all these other balloons go up. Let
) the victims
to the people around this room because I
everybody else have their day in the sun. Our
ted. As Phil
see many, many that go back to my earliest
day is going to prevail because we are right
i like 3 mil-
days in Texas politics-but the longer I am
on the issues, because we are compassionate
ep fighting
in this job, the more convinced I am that
and caring about the American people, and
Government alone simply cannot solve these
because our fundamental values, our fun-
lice officers
ods of this
problems. It can't be done.
damental values of faith and family is what
You might say, "What keeps a kid in
this country is all about.
be careful
school? What keeps a kid away from drugs?
Thank you all for what you're doing, and
What keeps a kid out of the gangs?" It's not
may God bless the United States of America.
e playing a
Government. It is family. Barbara Bush said
Thank you.
st by a sys-
it right: What happens in your house is far
a afford it
he welfare
more important than what happens in the
Note: The President spoke at 7:37 p.m. at
White House. We have got to find ways to
the Grand Kempinski Hotel. In his remarks,
1,200, and
strengthen the American family, and we must
he referred to Dr. W.A. Criswell, pastor,
you can't
find ways to see that not one piece of legisla-
First Baptist Church of Dallas; Fred
e, and the
tion passes that diminishes the American
McClure, managing director, First Southwest
r $1,000."
family.
Co.; Robert A. Mosbacher, Jr., chairman,
t to struc-
I've been in politics a long, long time. I
Texas Victory '92; Kay Bailey-Hutchison,
gainst sav-
computed it the other day. Half of my adult
Texas State treasurer; and Rick Perry, Texas
d encour-
life since I got out of the Navy and went
commissioner of agriculture. A tape was not
g. We are
to school and then moved out to Odessa in
available for verification of the content of
If I can't
the spring of 1948, half of my adult life has
these remarks.
king that
been in public life, and exactly half has been
and clear.
in the private sector. We have been blessed,
er to have
both Barbara and I have been blessed, by
S owning
the challenges and the joy that we've had in
Remarks to Goddard Space Flight
ents that
all kinds of fascinating assignments.
Center Employees in Greenbelt,
rse it is.
The more I think of our country, I'd say
Maryland
and I'm
this: We have been through tough times. The
June 1, 1992
Congress,
country's been through tough times. That's
king job
changing. Things are beginning to move. We
Thank you very, very much. Thank you for
are not a pessimistic Nation. We are a rising
this welcome to Goddard. And Dan Goldin,
.at would
Nation, and we are full of promise for the
thank you, sir, for the introduction, the lead-
would be
future. I have vowed, as we try to get some-
ership you're giving the Agency. With me is
or Hous-
thing done with Congress before the shift
Bill Reilly. We've been talking today about
goes entirely into politics in this every-4-year
the upcoming summit in Brazil, the environ-
ked the
dance that we're all engaged in, that I will
mental meeting down there. And this visit
I said,
not attack any single opponent. I haven't
is very timely for both of us, I think, seeing
ly want
done it since it started. Five people in the
what magnificent contribution Goddard
ities, as
Democratic side, one on the Republican
makes to a better understanding of our plan-
country
side, bolstered by the press that love a good
et. I want to salute Mike Deland, who was
at the
fight. I am not going to do it. I am going
with us up at Camp David a little bit ago.
nes that
to concentrate on trying to lead this country.
He runs our Council on Environmental
Respon-
I'm going to concentrate on trying to build
Quality. He's at my side in the White House,
epend-
and get something done.
a sound environmentalist. Dr. Klineberg, I
are not
But I want each and every one of you to
listened, I had the applause meter on when
Amer-
know that I am ready for the battle that lies
you walked in, and either they're scared of
e them
ahead. I have never felt more confident of
you or you're doing something right. [Laugh-
a victory, and I have never felt more fired
ter] I don't know which it is, but it was most
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Administration of George Bush, 1992 / June 1
983
hat market-based
using the aerosol phaseout as credit to meet
cessful-voluntary air toxics reduction pro-
; aimed at ambi-
the terms of the Montreal Protocol. We are
gram.
d up by rigorous
42 percent ahead of the schedule required
Our national parks are under stress from
:S solve environ-
by that agreement. And earlier this year, on
millions of visitors. And so, just in the last
st than command-
the basis of science developed by NASA, we
4 years, we've added over a million and half
unilaterally decided to speed up our time-
acres to America's parks, forests, wildlife ref-
ew generation of
table for phasing out CFC's to the end of
uges, and to other public land. We've created
at are global in
1995. We were the first nation, back in 1975,
57 new wildlife refuges and restored or pro-
international co-
to adopt catalytic converters to reduce those
tected more than a half a million acres a year
ek, and I referred
emissions from our cars and trucks. In 1982,
of important wetlands. And at the same time,
eads of state will
we began phasing out lead from American
we've streamlined the permitting process so
d it will be time
gasoline, and now ambient levels of lead in
that projects which don't hurt wetlands aren't
what better place
our air have been cut by 95 percent. Other
slowed down. And we've made sure to re-
ing on the prob-
nations are only now taking these two steps.
spect people's private property rights.
nvironment than
I came to this office committed to extend
We've placed a moratorium on oil and gas
America's record of environmental leader-
drilling along the most environmentally sen-
little tour, which
ship. And I've worked to do so in a way that
sitive areas of our coasts, signed new laws
rtheless gave me
is compatible with economic growth because
to protect against oilspills, to end below-cost
ficent work that
this balance is absolutely essential and be-
timber sales in America's largest rain forest,
: Goddard do, I
cause these are twin goals, not mutually ex-
the Tongass, and to promote environmental
onderful thing if
clusive objectives. You see, those who met
education. We've backed our laws up with
state could actu-
20 years ago at Stockholm and called for this
strict enforcement to make the polluters pay.
atories here and
UNCED, this summit, explicitly called for
And the results have been record con-
hat it is you are
the discussion at Rio to be about both envi-
tributions to cleanups from businesses.
better monitor
ronment and development. And they knew
And we have attended to the international
out or that they
even back then that the two were inextricably
environment with new agreements to stop
al ministers. It's
linked. Only a growing economy can gen-
the irresponsible export of toxic wastes, to
k it's very timely
erate the resources and the will to manage
ban trade in ivory and thereby stop the ex-
; and I look for-
natural assets for the longer term and the
tinction of elephants due to poaching, and
people down in
common good. But only assets which are so
to use debt forgiveness to protect the envi-
managed can support the growth on which
ronment through debt-for-nature swaps.
e that has given
so much human hope is hinged. By defini-
In short, our country, America, retains its
m which to see
tion, for development to be successful in the
place at the forefront of international envi-
:ft managed by
long term, it has got to be sustainable. And
ronmental accomplishment. Our laws have
V with its first
so, I invite comparison of the record that we
served as a model for environmental laws the
It was your sci-
as a country and as an administration have
world over. America's environmental accom-
who developed
built. It is aggressive. It is comprehensive.
plishments have not come by mistake; they
earch satellite
And it is ambitious, but carefully balanced.
are the result of sustained investment. Today,
roviding us new
What we've done in this administration re-
the U.S. spends about 2 percent of its gross
the ozone layer.
flects the new environmentalism, more so-
domestic product, over $100 billion per year,
science that the
phisticated in its approach, that harnesses the
on pollution control. In comparison to other
d our climate
power of the marketplace in the service of
nations, that's among the highest in the
: heart and soul
the environment. Let me give you some ex-
world.
Research Pro-
amples.
Americans have always believed that ac-
sion to Planet
The 1990 Clean Air Act, which I proposed
tions speak louder than words. And simple
ing.
and signed into law, is the most ambitious
wisdom has guided our approach to the ques-
will go proud-
air pollution legislation anywhere on Earth.
tions on the table at Rio. We will sign a good
ust in environ-
It will cut acid rain, smog, toxic chemical
agreement on climate change. It is based on
mental action.
emissions. And yet it will do so with innova-
the idea that every nation should prepare an
nation to rec-
tions the whole world is watching. We have
action strategy as we in the United States
emissions by
a trading system for sulfur dioxide reduc-
have done. We first laid our plan on the table
which we did
tions, have a new generation of cleaner fuels
in February 1991 with specific policy propos-
following suit
and cleaner cars, a massive-and to date suc-
als and specific calculations concerning how
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impressive. And thanks for your hospitality.
And we've learned that market-based
May I salute Brian Dailey, out here, of the
mechanisms and flexibility, aimed at ambi-
Space Council. And I'd like to thank Dr.
tious objectives and backed up by rigorous
Fisk, who helped us in the tour.
enforcement, can help us solve environ-
Now, you know that it's been a month, and
mental problems at less cost than command-
in just over a month on the job, Dan Goldin
and-control regulation.
supervised the recovery of a satellite on En-
We've learned about a new generation of
deavor's maiden voyage; he won a vote, a
environmental problems that are global in
very important vote, to save the space station
scope and that will require international co-
on the floor of the House; and he launched
operation to solve. This week, and I referred
his own cultural revolution at NASA. And I'd
to this earlier, over 100 heads of state will
say the new NASA is off to a flying start.
gather in Rio de Janeiro, and it will be time
And I am very grateful to him for taking on
to apply those lessons. And what better place
this terribly important assignment heading
to discuss our plans for taking on the prob-
up NASA.
lems of the international environment than
Twenty years ago this month, 20 years ago,
here at Goddard.
the leaders of the world gathered in Sweden
I thought as I was on this little tour, which
to talk about the human environment. The
was all too quick but nevertheless gave me
Stockholm Declaration that they adopted
a little feel about the magnificent work that
had a simple conclusion, that through fuller
the wonderful employees of Goddard do, I
knowledge and wiser action we can achieve
thought wouldn't it be a wonderful thing if
for ourselves and our posterity a better life
these 100 or more heads of state could actu-
in an environment more in keeping with
ally walk through the laboratories here and
human needs and hopes. Much has been ac-
get a practical feeling for what it is you are
complished since those early days of
doing, to see how they can better monitor
environmentalism, and much has been
the changes that they talk about or that they
learned.
get from their environmental ministers. It's
We've learned that only market-oriented
a wonderful thing. And I think it's very timely
economies and democratic systems provide
that I've had this opportunity, and I look for-
the accountability needed to protect against
ward to sharing with those people down in
environmental degradation. The coating of
Rio.
soot that the world found when the curtain
It is science developed here that has given
of secrecy was pulled back from Eastern Eu-
the world a new window from which to see
rope was but one visible demonstration of
its environment. A spacecraft managed by
that.
Goddard provided humanity with its first
We've learned that the economy can grow
image of Earth from space. It was your sci-
even while pollution is reduced. Since 1973,
entists, Goddard's scientists, who developed
our GDP has grown by more than 50 per-
the upper atmosphere research satellite
cent. And yet air quality has gotten better:
launched last year, which is providing us new
Emissions of carbon monoxide and smog-
insight about the content of the ozone layer.
forming ozone, sulfur dioxide, and particu-
And the lion's share of the science that the
late matter are all down by more than 20
world is using to understand our climate
percent. And water quality has gotten better:
comes from a program with its heart and soul
We've achieved an 80 percent reduction in
right here, the Global Change Research Pro-
suspended solids from industrial and sewage
gram, built around the Mission to Planet
treatment plants.
Earth that Goddard is developing.
We've learned that technology, spurred by
When we go to Rio, the U.S. will go proud-
the right incentives, can provide help to the
ly as the world's leader, not just in environ-
environment that no amount of regulation of
mental research but in environmental action.
old technology could have achieved. Techno-
The United States was the first nation to rec-
logical progress can cut pollution rather than
ognize the danger of CFC emissions by
increase it. And at the same time, the effi-
eliminating aerosol propellants, which we did
ciency gained is good for profits.
in 1978. Other nations are now following suit
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June 1 / Administration of George Bush, 19
much greenhouse gas emissions would be re-
Second, with respect to climate, the sig
duced. When the science on CFC's changed,
ing of a convention that calls for action pla:
we added new measures, and we again laid
is simply a first step. We must impleme
our plan on the table. We showed that our
them. So I will join in proposing a prom
policies would reduce projected year 2000
start to adoption of climate action plans. (
greenhouse gas emissions by 125 million to
course, as new and better science becom
200 million tons, or by 7 to 11 percent. No
available on climate change, we will adju
other nation except The Netherlands has laid
our action plan accordingly. The solution 1
out such a specific plan of action. And that's
climate change must include the developin
why we insisted that the focus be on results,
countries. While today they account fc
not on rhetoric. It may not have been widely
about a quarter of the world's emissions, b
reported in the press, but in area after area,
the year 2025 they will contribute over hali
So we must have their participation, and W
the United States laid down specific propos-
will fund "country studies" to get them start
als and worked for their adoption: Forests,
ed. These countries will need new tech
oceans, living marine resources, public par-
nologies if they are to enjoy green growth
ticipation, financing. Let me be clear: Our
And America can provide them. So, my
commitment to action did not begin and will
budget includes an investment of almost $]
not end with Rio.
billion in developing new energy-efficien
So, when I travel down there next week,
technologies. Hundreds of American busi-
to Brazil, I will bring with me several propos-
nessmen will be traveling to Rio to make the
als to extend the commitment of the world
case for our technology. But this effort must
community into the future. Let me outline
continue.
for you my four-point plan of cooperation:
So then the third part of our plan is to
support a program, a board program of tech-
nology cooperation. In particular, we're
First, I will propose a major new initiative
going to create a Technology Cooperation
to protect and enhance the world's forests.
Corps to identify the green technology, those
I mentioned lessons learned about cost effec-
green technological needs of countries
tiveness. Well, halting the loss of the Earth's
around the world, and then to knock down
forests is one of the most cost-effective steps
the barriers to making it available.
we can take to cut carbon dioxide emissions.
Forests also filter the air and water. They
The fourth point of my program for a
provide products from timber and fuelwood
cleaner future is a continued program of re-
to pharmaceuticals and foodstuffs. They are
search and understanding. This year we are
home to more than half the world's species.
requesting over $1.4 billion for the Global
At the Houston G-7 summit 2 years ago, I
Change Research Program. That's more than
proposed a global forest convention. At
the amount spent on climate research by the
UNCED, we should get agreement on the
rest of the world put together. With Dan
principles leading up to it. But I propose
Goldin's leadership here at NASA, we will
today to move ahead faster. At Rio, I will
push for a program that provides results fast-
ask the other industrialized countries to join
er, cheaper, and better. At Rio, I will propose
me in doubling worldwide forest assistance
to make the data from our climate change
with a goal of halting the loss of the world's
program available and affordable for sci-
forests by the end of the decade. As a down
entists and researchers all around the world.
payment, the U.S. will increase its bilateral
As part of this effort, we will distribute at
forest assistance by $150 million next year.
that Conference, at UNCED, thousands of
The plan is to encourage partnerships be-
copies of computer disks with data on green-
tween recipient countries who could propose
house effects, and we will open this year a
new projects and investor countries who, in
Global Change Research Information Office.
effect, could bid to support the most effective
These four steps-a dramatic program to
proposals for sequestering CO₂ or preserving
protect and to enhance forests; quick action
biodiversity.
on climate change; cooperation in deploying
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985
to climate, the sign-
cleaner, more efficient technology; and then
Nomination of Alison Podell
calls for action plans
an ongoing program to develop and share
Rosenberg To Be an Assistant
Ve must implement
sound science-can help us seize that oppor-
Administrator of the Agency for
proposing a prompt
tunity long after those speeches in Rio have
International Development
ate action plans. Of
been given and the Conference is over.
June 1, 1992
er science becomes
nge, we will adjust
Two decades ago, when they gathered at
The President today announced his inten-
gly. The solution to
Stockholm, the leaders of the world could
tion to nominate Alison Podell Rosenberg,
ude the developing
they account for
not possibly have foreseen the tumultuous
of Virginia, to be an Assistant Administrator
events of the intervening two decades. Then
of the Agency for International Development
orld's emissions, by
for the Bureau of Africa, U.S. International
ontribute over half.
they worried about nuclear war as a chief
Development Cooperation Agency. She
articipation, and we
environmental threat. They couldn't have
would succeed Scott M. Spangler.
to get them start-
known that today the specter of nuclear war,
II need new tech-
with its unthinkable destruction, would be
Since 1988, Ms. Rosenberg has served as
njoy green growth.
calmed as never before in our postwar his-
Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Eco-
ide them. So, my
tory. They could not possibly have envisioned
nomic Policy and Assistance for the Bureau
tment of almost $1
that, with the fall of statism and communism,
of African Affairs at the Department of State.
ew energy-efficient
those who would come to Rio would have
Prior to this, she served as Director of Afri-
of American busi-
the chance to launch a new generation of
can Affairs for National Security Council
to Rio to make the
clean growth guided by the wisdom of free
staff, 1987-88, and Associate Assistant Ad-
But this effort must
peoples and fueled by the power of free mar-
ministrator and Director in the Office of Pol-
kets. They could never have known how far
icy Development and Program Review at the
: of our plan is to
we'd have come in 20 years. Now it is for
Agency for International Development,
d program of tech-
us to imagine how much further we can go.
1985-87.
particular, we're
And what better place to make that point
ology Cooperation
than standing before these people that are
Ms. Rosenberg graduated from Smith Col-
n technology, those
dedicated to demonstrating to the rest of the
lege (B.A., 1967). She was born September
eds of countries
world how much farther we can go.
5, 1945, in Miami, FL. Ms. Rosenberg is
en to knock down
married, has one child, and resides in
vailable.
I am grateful to each and every one of you
McLean, VA.
who gives of himself or herself to further the
ny program for a
science and thus to improve and keep some-
ued program of re-
thing very, very special, the environmental
This year we are
ion for the Global
quality of our entire world. Thank you for
what you do. And may God bless our great
Nomination of Walter B.
n. That's more than
ate research by the
country. Thank you.
McCormick, Jr., To Be General
Counsel of the Department of
gether. With Dan
at NASA, we will
Transportation
ovides results fast-
June 1, 1992
Rio, I will propose
Note: The President spoke at 2:44 p.m. in
The President today announced his inten-
ur climate change
the auditorium in Building 8. In his remarks,
tion to nominate Walter B. McCormick, Jr.,
ffordable for sci-
he referred to John M. Klineberg, Director,
of Missouri, to be General Counsel of the
around the world.
Goddard Space Flight Center; Brian D.
Department of Transportation. He would
will distribute at
Dailey, Executive Secretary-Designate, Na-
succeed Arthur J. Rothkopf.
ED, thousands of
tional Space Council; and Lennard A. Fisk,
ith data on green-
Associate Administrator for Space Science
Currently Mr. McCormick serves as Re-
1 open this year a
and Applications, NASA. A tape was not
nformation Office.
publican chief counsel and staff director of
available for verification of the content of
the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce,
matic program to
these remarks.
Science, and Transportation in Washington,
rests; quick action
ation in deploying