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Originally Processed With FOIA(s): FOIA Number: 1999-0128-F; 2005-0336-F 2005-0336-F FOIA MARKER This is not a textual record. This is used as an administrative marker by the George Bush Presidential Library Staff. Record Group/Collection: George H.W. Bush Presidential Records Collection/Office of Origin: Science and Technology Policy, Office of (OSTP) Series: Bromley, D. Allan, Files Subseries: Global Climate Change Files - Conferences/Meetings OA/ID Number: 62058 Folder ID Number: 62058-006 Folder Title: Environment - UNCED [United Nations Conference on Environment and Development i.e. Earth Summit or Rio Summit - June 11-13, 1992] Stack: Row: Section: Shelf: Position: 0 0 0 0 THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON April 16, 1991 MEMORANDUM FOR GOVERNOR SUNUNU FROM: D. ALLAN BROMLEY Allan SUBJECT: UNCED PREPARATION DATA Enclosed herewith is a memorandum prepared by Dr. Nancy Maynard of my staff that provides background information on the planning underway for U.S. participation in the UN's sponsored Conference on the Environment and Development scheduled for Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in June 1992. Enclosures EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT OFFICE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY POLICY WASHINGTON, D.C. 20506 April 15, 1991 MEMORANDUM FOR D. ALLAN BROMLEY FROM: NANCY G. MAYNARD SUBJECT: UNCED Update As you know, the second Preparatory Committee meeting on the UNCED recently concluded in Geneva, and briefings were presented both to a small White House group and to the PCC last Friday. I will summarize below the background, results of the second PrepCom, recent US activities, and some concerns and possible actions. Background The UN Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) will be held at the Head of State level in Rio de Janeiro, June 1-12, 1992 to set world priorities in environment and development issues and their linkages well into the 21st century. The June 1992 UNCED commemorates the 20th anniversary of the Stockholm Conference on The Human Environment which set the tone for the international environmental agenda for the last 20 years. Stockholm issued a declaration of principles and established the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) to coordinate international environmental work. The Conference agenda, established by UNGA Resolution 44/228 (December 1989), seeks to take up all environmental issues, and other cross-cutting issues such as public access to information, legal mechanisms, technology transfer and financial assistance. UNCED will also consider how to integrate environmental objectives with economic development. Four preparatory meetings are planned: August 1990 - Nairobi March 1991 - Geneva August 1991 - Geneva February/March 1992 - New York Conference Secretary Maurice Strong (Canada) Chair, Preparatory Committee . Tommy Koh (Singapore) Work in the remaining Preparatory Committee meetings will take place in four bodies: The Plenary - will also deal with cross-cutting issues, such as the provision of financial resources for environmentally sound projects in developing countries and the transfer of environmentally-appropriate technology to those countries WG 1. Atmosphere and climate change, land resources, and biodiversity (Chair, Sweden) WG 2. Oceans, fresh water, wastes and toxics (Chair, Nigeria) WG 3. legal and institutional issues - mechanisms for international agreements (Chair, Czechoslovakia) PrepCom March 18-April 5, 1991 - Summary of Results: Delegates (110 countries) set up a flexible procedure for accrediting NGO's (resulting in participation of 134 environmental and developmental groups). Working Group III was set up with strong terms of reference. Constructive debate began on a number of issues - e.g., marine pollution, hazardous wastes, toxic chemicals and soil loss. Good discussion on technology transfer occurred including a well-received US statement. The most satisfying progress on substantive issues was the momentum built for signing a separate forest agreement at Rio, which the Houston Summit endorsed. Unresolved issues from 2nd PrepCom: The US received only limited response to action-oriented US initiatives on ocean and toxic chemicals. There was no agreement regarding UNCED's role in climate change (as opposed to the ongoing negotiations in the Framework Convention). Work has not really begun on the the conference's 2 major outputs - "Earth Charter" (statement of principles) and "Agenda 21" (program of action). Recent US Activities in Preparation for UNCED a. US Government Preparations Department of State (OES) is the US Government lead in preparing for this conference. Curtis (Buff) Bohlen, Assistant Secretary of State, set up an UNCED Coordination Center and appointed Ambassador Robert Ryan (Senior Foreign Service Officer, an economist and former Ambassador to Mali) as Director and David Williams (former Chief of Planning and Environment, BLM) as Deputy Directory. The total 7 person staff is located in the top floor of CEQ. A total of 37 position papers and 3 background papers were circulated just prior to the PrepCom for review. (Tab A - list of papers) b. US National Report Each country is preparing a National Report (a self study of national resource base and current environment/development policies) for submission in July 1991. CEQ is preparing the US report with major support from EPA and is presently circulating a draft of this report to agencies for review and comment. In conjunction with this project CEQ is setting up public hearings throughout the US on issues covered in the report. (Schedule of hearings - Tab B) c. Congressional Hearings Congressional hearings are also underway on UNCED with the first hearing on April 16 before the House Subcommittee on Human Rights and International Organizations. Buff Bohlen (DOS) and Mike Deland (CEQ) will be testifying. Concerns/Possible Actions In our small White House meeting last Friday on this issue, a number of concerns were expressed: 1. It is important to establish an orderly, regular process at the policy level in the White House to follow the progress of UNCED in a more detailed way. (Receiving a stack of 40 papers to review a few days prior to the start of the PrepCom is not conducive to good policy-making.) 2. We (WH) need to determine exactly what US objectives are in UNCED and then work to steer the process so that our objectives are fulfilled. 3. A better, tighter system needs to be set up by the US Secretariat (Ryan) to coordinate the 41 issues/papers among all agencies over the coming months and to determine consistency with US policy, etc. 4. Maurice Strong (Canada) is evidentally running a very strong Secretariat and has firm control of output. There is concern that he will control most of the final products. To avoid this, we must become more involved in the work of the Secretariat (presently, we have one American (quite good) among the 15 Secretariat employees. However, it is said that much of the work is being done off-line by consultants, etc.) 5. The UNCED Secretariat will be producing a draft declaration of principles ("Earth Charter") and a detailed program of action ("Action 21"). We should find a way to work agressively on those documents as soon as possible. 6. Contingency plans need to be made in case the President decides to join other Heads of States at the Conference because nearly all of the hotel rooms have been booked already (7,000 rooms). 7. Given the amount of attention that this Conference will receive and its timing, this is a potential major opportunity (or risk) and we need to work hard to insure that it is fully developed and maintained as a "win". UNCED Preparations: March 1991 Geneva: PrepCom 2 Status of Position Papers: 2/18/91 Position Paper Lead Agency Chairman Tel.# --- FAX Status Scope Paper State Dawson 647-3638 -0753 Need update WORKING GROUP I Protection of the Atmosphere Climate Change State Reifsnyder 647-4069 -0191 Need update Ozone/Montreal Prot. State Usrey 647-9266 -5947 Need update Transboundary State Usrey 647-9266 -5947 Need update Air Pollution Land Resources Trop. Deforestation State Caswell 647-3367 -5947 Need update Desertification AID Gaudet 647-0467 -4238 Need update Biodiversity State Savage 647-3367 -5947 Need update Biotechnology State Savage 647-3367 -5947 Need update WORKING GROUP II Oceans, Seas and Coastal Seas Oceans Principles State Scully 647-3262 -1106 Draft circ Marine Living Res. NOAA Cottingham 377-5181 -8203 Draft circ Marine Pollution State Scully 647-3262 -1106 Draft circ 1 Coastal Zone Mgmnt NOAA Carey 673-5140 -3850 Draft circ Ocean Monitoring and Data Management State Bergamaschi 647-0239 -1106 Draft circ Institutions/ State Scully 647-3262 -1106 Draft circ Int'l Organizations Fresh Water Resources Fresh Water Quality EPA Christich 382-4893 -4470 Need update Fresh Water Supply DOI Washburn 208-3101 -3390 Need update Page 2 UNCED Preparations: March 1991 Geneva: PrepCom 2 Status of Position Papers: 2/18/91 Wastes and Toxics Wastes EPA Grieder 387-4887 382-4470 Need update Toxics EPA Ogden 475-6633 382-4470 Need update WORKING GROUP III (Legal/Institutional) Terms of Reference State Kovar 647-2282 -1037 Draft circ Restructuring State McGuinness 647-2752 -8902 Complete Int'l. Systems Environmental Law State Kovar 647-2282 -1037 Need update Principles Statement State Kovar 647-2282 -1037 New Paper CROSS CUTTING ISSUES Economic Policy Economic Growth/ CEA Gruenspecht 395-6982 -6947 Need update Development Environment, Trade State Cabral 647-6078 -6540 Need update and Development Energy & Industry DOE Williams 586-4759 -2062 Need update (including Energy Efficiency section from AID - Kamens) Finance, Funding State Preston 647-5640 -0320 Need update Technology Transfer EPA Kasman 475-7424/382-4470 Need update System of National EPA Hennemeyer 475-8252/382-4470 New Paper Income Accounting Environmental Information and Decisionmaking Env'l Education EPA Christich 382-4893 -4470 Need update (includes Promote Development of Human Resources) Environmental Impact CEQ Bliss-Guest 395-5750 -3744 Need update Assessment Page 3 UNCED Preparations: March 1991 Geneva: PrepCom 2 Status of Position Papers: 2/18/91 Prevention & Settlement of Disputes State Kovar 647-2282 -1037 New Paper Cooperation Between Neighboring Countries State Rojo 647-9312 -5947 Draft circ. Envl Emergencies OFDA Huden 647-5714 -5269 New Paper Eco-Development Areas DOI Washburn 208-3101 -3390 New Paper Quality of Life Population/ State Andrus 647-3472 -0217 Need update Demographic Human Settlements AID Hammam 663-2534 -2552 Need update Health Consequences AID Long 875-4743 -5490 Need update of Env'l Degradation BACKGROUND PAPERS Major U.S. Env'l Laws DOJ Petsonk 514-4642 -4231 New Paper Innovative Concepts EPA Volgelgesang 382-4870/755-0653 e.g., Risk Assessment, New Paper Pollution Prevention, Cross-Media Pollutants Env'l Information EPA Drake 475-8446/382-4470 New Paper UNCED PPC SUBCOMMITTEE MEETING LIST NAME AGENCY TEL. FAX Jerry Kamens AID/S&T/EN 703-875-4518 703-875-4639 Bob Wrin AID/S&T/H 703-875-4493 703-875-5490 Raleigh Leef Army Corps Engrs. 202-272-0123 202-272-0287 Jerry Delli Priscoli Army Corps Engrs. 703-305-2372 703-355-3171 Patricia Bliss-Guest CEQ 202-395-5750 202-395-3744 Joanna Wallace CIA 703-482-9682 703-790-5736 Roza Pace DOC 202-377-3227 202-377-5039 Moira M. Shea DOC/TA 202-317-0826 202-377-4817 Richard Kibler DOD 703-325-2211 703-325-2234 Kathleen Rees DOE/IE 202-586-5902 202-586-1180 Kathryn Washburn DOI 202-208-3101 202-208-3390 Catherine Hung DOT 202-366-4823 202-366-7618 Courtney Tucker DOT 202-366-9524 202-366-7483 Susan Drake EPA 202-475-8446 202-382-4470 Sandy Vogelgesang EPA 202-382-4870 202-755-0653 David Cottingham NOAA 202-377-5181 202-377-5231 Janice Sessing NOAA 202-377-5181 202-377-5231 David Reynolds Peace Corps 202-606-3100 202-606-3024 Kathryn Cabral State 202-647-6078 202-647-6450 Nancy Carter State 202-647-3472 202-647-0217 Ray Clore State 202-647-3367 202-647-5947 Jim Chamberlin State 202-647-3367 202-647-5947 Chris Dawson State/S/P 202-647-0436 202-647-0753 Jeff Kovar State 202-647-2282 202-647-1037 Tom Martin State/IO 202-647-2330 202-647-8902 Tucker Scully State 202-647-3262 202-647-1106 Richard J. Smith State 202-647-1554 202-647-1555 Linda Strachan State 202-647-3550 202-647-1555 Gary Usrey State 202-647-9266 202-647-5947 Maureen Walker State 202-647-9099 202-647-1106 David Williams State 202-647-3367 202-647-5947 Norton D. Strommen USDA 202-447-9805 ========================= 202-472-5805 Fred Kaiser USDAFS 202-447-2747 202-453-3603 R. Michael Martin USDAFS 202-453-9357 202-453-3603 Wendy Beaver USIA 202-619-4758 202-619-6520 Ed Goldstein WH-OPD 202-456-7988 202-456-7739 Eric Melby NSC 202-395-4985 202-395-7350 Howard Gruenspecht CEA 202-395-6982 202-395-6947 Dan Sheehan Coast Guard 202-267-2970 202-267-1405 Richard Porter Dom. Pol. Council 202-456-6722 202-456-2223 Hassan Virji NSF 202-357-9762 202-357-9629 Norman Hartness OMB 202-395-6840 202-395-6899 Vicky Sutton OSTP 202-456-6202 202-395-3719 Nelson Coar Treasury 202-566-2487 202-566-8066 Don Eiss USTR 202-395-5656 202-395-3911 SEEHCB #963 2/5/91 03/28/91 13:11 "202 647 0191 STATE OES/EGC 1 008/006 UNCED SCHEDULE OF MEETINGS AND MAJOR CHECKPOINTS FROM UNCED COORDINATION COUNTDOWN TO GENEVA +10 COUNTDOWN TO UNCED 431 DEPARTMENT OF STATE 62 WEEKS TO BRAZIL! 3/28/91 PURPOSE LOCATION DATE TIME PARTICIPANTS 3/18-4/5 DELEGATION PREPCOM 2 Geneva BOHLEN/SMITH/RYAN 4/17 BOHLEN/RYAN HEARING - HOUSE FOREIGN AFFAIRS 4/25 Ryan OECD Ad Hoc Group on Env. and Dev. Paris 4/26-27 Williams Citizens' Network St. Louis 5/9-10 WILLIAMS/KLEIN CEQ ROUNDTABLE Baltimore 5/15 BOHLEN/RYAN HEARING - SENATE FOREIGN RELATIONS 5/17-18 RYAN/KOVAR AMERICAN BAR ASSN Airlie House WILLIAMS ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CONF. Warrenton VA 5/20-31 BOHLEN/REINSTEIN UNEP GOVERNING COUNCIL Nairobi 5/30-31 WILLIAMS/STEEVER CEQ ROUNDTABLE San Francisco 6/13-14 WILLIAMS/LARSEN CEQ ROUNDTABLE Denver 6/27-28 RYAN/WILLIAMS CEO ROUNDTABLE Chicago STANCIOFF Mid-July WILLIAMS CEQ STEERING COMM. Washington Summarize Roundtables 7/25-28 Bohlen Aspen Institute: Sr. Aspen CO policy makers re UNCED 8/12-30 DELEGATION PREPCOM 3 Geneva BOHLEN/SMITH/RYAN/WILLIAMS 10/7 Ryan OECD Ad Hoc Group on Env. and Dev. Paris 10/29-11/2 Ryan/Williams Globescope Americas Miami November Ryan/Williams UN General Assembly UN/New York 2nd Comm. on ENV Items in CAPS are committed by State, others are to be decided.