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THE
SMOKING GUN!I PUBLISHED THIS TEXT
OF HR353 YEARS AGO BUT NOW SOMEONE HAS FOUND THE VIDEO IN C-SPAN’s LIBRARY –
AMAZING. NANCY PELOSI EVEN REFERS TO AGENDA 21 AS A BLUE PRINT WHICH WE
HAVE ALWAYS CONTENDED IT TO BE. THIS VIDEO IS QUITE LENGTHY, THEREFORE
START THE VIDEO THEN SLIDE THE PLAYER CONTROL TO THE 11:43:30 MARK AND
WATCH UNTIL THE 11:51:48 MARK. THIS IS OUR VERY OWN GOVERNMENT IMPLEMENTING
UNITED NATION’S POLICY INTO THE POLICY OF OUR COUNTRY WITHOUT OUR KNOWLEDGE
OR APPROVAL. - BILL
EXPRESSING
SENSE OF CONGRESS THAT U.S. SHOULD DEVELOP NATIONAL STRATEGY IMPLEMENTING
EARTH SUMMIT AGREEMENTS (House of Representatives - October 02, 1992)
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Mr.
ENGEL. Mr. Speaker, I move to suspend the rules and agree to the concurrent
resolution (H. Con. Res. 353) expressing the sense of the Congress that the
United States should assume a strong leadership role in implementing the
decisions made at the Earth summit by developing a national strategy to
implement Agenda21 and other Earth summit agreements
through domestic policy and foreign policy, by cooperating with all
countries to identify and initiate further agreements to protect the global
environment, and by supporting and participating in a high-level U.N.
Sustainable Development Commission, as amended.
The
Clerk read as follows:
H. Con. Res. 353
Whereas
the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (hereinafter
in this preamble referred to as `UNCED'), known as the Earth Summit,
assembled in June of 1992 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the largest summit of
heads of state in history and outlined a comprehensive action plan for
environmentally sustainable development, known as Agenda21 ;
Whereas
the United States has a strong national interest in the environmental
sustainability of global economic development, and many pressing
environmental and economic problems are inherently transboundary and not
susceptible to resolution by the actions of any single nation acting alone;
Whereas
Agenda21
, a plan of national and international actions to integrate environment and
development, negotiated and adopted by the United States and 177 other
countries, offers a significant starting point for continuing progress in
avoiding environmental degradation and social and economic disintegration
in the 21st century;
Whereas
the role of the United States, as a major economic force and a country that
has long been in the forefront of environmental protection activities
nationally and internationally, should be one of leadership and positive
action in the implementation process of Agenda21 and all decisions of UNCED;
Whereas
Agenda21
urges all governments to adopt national strategies for sustainable
development;
Whereas
Agenda21
urges all countries to `make significant progress' in incorporating
environmental costs into economic decisions, to undertake research or
sustainable production methods and consumption patterns, and to undertake
other actions to make their economies more environmentally sustainable;
Whereas
Agenda21
calls for a `supportive international climate for achieving environment and
development goals,' by `providing adequate financial resources to
developing countries and dealing with international debt,' and calls for
`the reallocation of resources presently committed to military purposes' to
support United States policies and the efforts of developing countries to
implement Agenda21 ;
Whereas
UNCED recommended that high-level United Nations Commission on Sustainable
Development (hereinafter in this preamble referred to as the `Commission')
be established by the 47th United Nations General Assembly to provide a
vital forum in which the member states of the United Nations may review
progress made by considering reports from national governments,
international organizations, and nongovernmental organizations;
Whereas
the United States was an active and positive participant in UNCED
negotiations regarding the Commission, and will play a major role in the
decisions of the 47th United Nations General Assembly regarding the
specific modalities and effectiveness of the Commission;
Whereas
the agreements adopted at UNCED are milestones toward the achievement of
environmentally sustainable economic development and for holding
governments accountable for progress toward integrating environment and
development;
Whereas
many opportunities for agreements concerning more extensive actions on
critical issues remained unresolved at UNCED and will require further
attention by the nations of the world; and
Whereas
the ultimate success of achieving sustainable development and a healthy
environment at the national and international levels depends upon actions
taken at the State and local community levels, and on actions by schools,
public offices, businesses, and citizens: Now, therefore, be it
Resolved
by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring), That it is
the sense of the Congress that--
(1)
effective follow-up to achieve the many goals of the agreements reached at
the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (hereinafter
in this resolution referred to as `UNCED') will depend on the following
actions by the President and the United States Government:
(a)
The United States should adopt a national strategy for environmentally
sustainable development, based on an extensive process of nationwide
consultations with all interested organizations and individuals, including
State and
local governments, nongovernmental organization, businesses, and labor
groups.
(B)
The United States Government should encourage and facilitate, at all levels
of community and sectors of society, appropriate means for adopting
individual Agenda21 plans of action, including the
establishment of local, county, State, business, and other boards and
commissions for achieving sustainable development. Each member of the
Congress should help initiate this process within their States or
districts.
(C)
The President should establish an effective mechanism to plan, initiate,
and coordinate United States policy for implementing Agenda21
. Responsibility should be vested in a duly constituted office, headed by
an appropriate high level official, and the necessary staff support
structure should be provided.
(D)
Policies should be formulated for foreign policy and foreign assistance in
order to help developing countries, and for domestic actions in order to
assure appropriate action by the United States to implement Agenda21
;
(2)
in order to contribute to a transition to a sustainable United States
economy, the research and policy initiatives urged in Agenda21
should be pursued, including research on sustainable consumption and
production patterns, creation of a policy framework for sustainable
consumption patterns, identification of a strategy to eliminate or reduce
subsidies for unsustainable natural resource exploitation, and to improve
pricing policies;
(3)
the Congress should adopt a plan to reallocate an appropriate amount of
savings from reduced defense spending in order to achieve its goals of
global environmental protection and sustainable development over the next
decade;
(4)
the President should urge and actively participate in new and existing
multilateral efforts aimed at creating a more favorable international
economic climate for developing countries to practice sustainable development,
and such efforts should include international consultations regarding
reduction in developing country debt linked with environmental policy
reforms, and increased loans and concessional assistance upon development
and implementation of national sustainable development strategies in
developing countries;
(5)
the United States should actively support, at the 47th United Nations
General Assembly, the effective establishment of a high-level United
Nations Commission on Sustainable Development (hereinafter in this
resolution referred to as the `Commission'), including the establishment of
provisions for meaningful participation by organizations of the United
Nations system, international financial institutions, and other relevant
intergovernmental organizations and nongovernmental organizations
recommended by UNCED;
(6)
the President should affirm strong United States commitment to the
Commission by appointing a high-level representative from the United States
to the Commission, and by encouraging the United Nations Secretary General
to appoint an Under Secretary General for Sustainable Development to
coordinate the implementation of Agenda21 in the United Nations system and to
head the secretariat support structure for the Commission;
(7)
the President should submit a national report for the Commission on
activities the United States has undertaken to implement Agenda21
, both domestically and internationally, on progress made toward fulfilling
other commitments undertaken at UNCED, and on other environmental and
developmental issues that the United States finds relevant, and should
strongly encourage all United Nations members to submit national reports;
(8)
the United States should encourage the Commission to call for
periodic international meetings to continue the process toward developing
and advancing international agreement to facilitate sustainable economic
development for the protection of the global environment and the promotion
of human dignity of current and future generations; and
(9)
the President should submit an annual report to the Congress on the steps
taken by the United States to implement Agenda21 and the recommendations made by
this resolution, and should make information regarding such steps
available to members of the Congress upon their request.
The
SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to the rule, the gentleman from New York [Mr.
Engel] will be recognized for 20 minutes, and the
gentleman from Michigan [Mr. Broomfield] will be
recognized for 20 minutes.
The
Chair recognizes the gentleman from New York [Mr. Engel].
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Mr.
ENGEL. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may
consume.
(Mr.
ENGEL asked and was given permission to revise and extend
his remarks.)
Mr.
ENGEL. Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of House Concurrent Resolution 353,
expressing the sense of the Congress that the United States should assume a
strong leadership role in implementing the decisions made at the Earth
summit in Rio de Janeiro by developing a national strategy to implement Agenda21
and other Earth summit agreements through domestic policy and foreign
policy, by cooperating with all countries to identify and initiate further
agreements to protect the global environment, and by supporting and
participating in a high-level U.N. Sustainable Development Commission, as
amended.
The
Brazil meeting of the U.N. Conference on Environment and Development
[UNCED], in June, marked global concurrence on the need to better integrate
environmental and developmental activities, and presented a plan to achieve
it. Some 175 countries gave their approval to the comprehensive program of
action known as Agenda21 . The task now before nations is to
implement the precepts of that document, which will be a demanding, yet
necessary, endeavor if the world's development is to be viable and endure.
Each nation must do its part. The resolution now before the House, House
Concurrent Resolution 353, as amended, is an effort to get the U.S. process
in gear.
At
the outset I would like to commend my distinguished colleague, the chief
sponsor of the resolution, the Honorable Nancy Pelosi for
her leadership and interest in shaping this very significant measure. It
has been 4 months since the Rio summit, and it is very important that
Congress show its commitment to effective implementation of the UNCED
initiatives.
I
also wish to commend the chairman and ranking minority member of the
Subcommittee on Human Rights and International Organizations, the
Honorables Gus Yatron, and Doug Bereuter for
their support in expediting consideration of this measure, and their
continuing efforts on behalf of environment and development.
The
text of House Concurrent Resolution 353, as amended, highlights
congressional sentiments on behalf of achieving the UNCED objective of
environmentally sustainable development. It recognizes that the ultimate
success of UNCED is dependent on actions taken at all levels:
international, national, state, local, public, private, and individual.
Specifically, it calls for the following:
A
national strategy, based on countrywide consultations with a broad
diversity of interests, and with efforts to engage all sectors, and levels
in the process.
A
Presidential plan for coordinating U.S. policy to implement agenda21
;
Formulation
of domestic and foreign policies, including foreign aid, to implement agenda21
;
Research
on sustainable consumption and production patterns, creation of an
appropriate policy framework, and a strategy to cut subsidies which promote
degradation of the resource base;
A
Congressional plan to reallocate defense savings to environmentally
sustainable development;
Active
U.S. support at the U.N. General Assembly for the Sustainable Development
Commission, including provisions for meaningful participation by other U.N.
entities, international financial institutions, and NGO's;
Presidential
affirmation of a strong U.S. commitment to the Commission by appointing a
high-level American to that body, and by encouraging the U.N. Secretary
General to appoint an Under Secretary General for Sustainable Development
to coordinate and implement Agenda21 ;
Submission
of a national report, by the President, on U.S. domestic and international
activities, to implement agenda21 , fulfill other UNCED initiatives, and
encourage other nations to also submit national reports; and
An
annual report to Congress on measures to implement agenda21 , and the
recommendations of this resolution.
Mr.
Speaker, I urge the adoption of House Concurrent Resolution 353, as
amended.
Mr.
Speaker, I yield such time as she may consume to the sponsor of the
resolution, the gentlewoman from California [Ms. Pelosi],
to explain the resolution.
Ms.
PELOSI. Mr. Speaker, Mr. Fascell, Mr. Broomfield,
Mr. Yatron, Mr. Bereuter, and members of
the Foreign Affairs Committee, are to be commended for their efforts to
expedite consideration of this legislation.
The
Earth Summit Environmental Leadership Act, presents us with the opportunity
to follow up on the important work of the Earth summit to develop its
blueprint--agenda21 --for global environmental action.
House
Concurrent Resolution 353 outlines a comprehensive national strategy for
sustainable development, in accordance with the principles of agenda21
, to be coordinated under the leadership of a specific office and the
direction of a high-level government official.
The
resolution also urges the United States to identify and initiate further
agreements to protect the global environment and to support the creation of
a high-level U.N. Sustainable Development Commission headed by an
Undersecretary General. The President is urged to report to Congress on the
progress of these steps.
House
Concurrent Resolution 353 is supported by the administration. I have been
in contact with the appropriate offices of the State Department and have
incorporated their suggestions in the resolution. The 71 cosponsors of this
measure include one-half the members of the Foreign Affairs Committee and
all of the House delegates to the Earth summit. It is also supported by the
major United States' nongovernmental organizations.
The
Earth summit presented world leaders with an opportunity that should not be
lost. We must now embark on a new course that will sustain our planet and
its resources for the benefit of future generations. This resolution calls
on the United States to assert its leadership to achieve this goal.
I
urge my colleagues to support this resolution. Thank you, again, to Members
of the Foreign Affairs Committee, for their recognition of the importance
and timeliness of this resolution.
We
must make the promise of Rio a reality.
Mr.
ENGEL. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
Mr.
BROOMFIELD. Mr Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
(Mr.
BROOMFIELD asked and was given permission to revise and extend his remarks
and to include extraneous material.)
Mr.
BROOMFIELD. Mr. Speaker, I support this resolution, which expresses the
sense of Congress with respect to implementing the decisions of the recent
U.N. Conference on Environment and Development.
I
wish to commend the gentlelady from California, Congresswoman Pelosi,
for her sponsorship of the resolution.
Mr.
Speaker, despite all the criticism of administration policy toward the
Earth summit, the fact is that the U.S. Government made a very constructive
contribution in Rio and in the talks that led up to the meeting in Rio.
Largely
as a result, the conference adopted four major items: The Rio Declaration
on Environment and Development; the lengthy action plan referred to as Agenda21
; the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change; and nonbinding but
authoritative principles for the management and conservation of forest
resources.
In
addition, the conference adopted the U.N. Biodiversity Convention, which
the administration decided not to join at this time. This was due to
concerns about intellectual property and also the decisionmaking and
funding mechanism.
The
administration has already made a good beginning in implementing the
results of the conference:
During
the talks on climate, the administration pledged $75 million for related
projects in developing countries including the development of national
plans;
The
President announced that the United States would have our own national plan
on climate ready by the end of the year in order to start international
consultations in January 1993.
The
President announced a forests for the future initiative to double worldwide
forestry assistance, beginning with a $150 million additional U.S.
contribution.
The
administration is preparing for consideration by the U.N. General Assembly
of establishment of the Sustainable Development Commission called for in
Rio, and is working on an interagency basis to formulate further plans to
implement the other recommendations of the conference.
The
good start made by the administration shows that the United States is
serious about international cooperation to address global environmental
problems. The resolution before us calls for similar measures to implement
the recommendations of the Rio conference.
The
State Department supports the provisions of this resolution, which are
fully consistent with U.S. policy toward implementing the results of the
Earth summit. Ms. Pelosi should be further commended for
her cooperative attitude on the issues that were raised by the Department
at an earlier stage in the consideration of this resolution.
Mr.
Speaker, I was appointed to the Earth summit observer delegation. Although
I did not actually attend the Conference, I followed the proceedings in
other ways.
Recently
I had the opportunity to contribute an article on these matters to a
magazine called Michigan International Lawyer. I include this summary of my
views for inclusion in the Record at the conclusion of my
remarks.
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The
SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the motion offered by the gentleman
from New York [Mr. Engel] that the House suspend the rules
and agree to the concurrent resolution, House Concurrent Resolution 353, as
amended.
The
question was taken; and (two-thirds having voted in favor thereof) the
rules were suspended and the concurrent resolution, as amended, was agreed
to.
A
motion to reconsider was laid on the table.
ENVIRONMENTAL
PROTECTION -- HON. NANCY PELOSI (Extension of Remarks - March 30, 1993)
[Page: E800]
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HON.
NANCY PELOSI
in
the House of Representatives
MONDAY,
MARCH 29, 1993
Ms.
PELOSI. Mr. Speaker, the Earth Summit provided the world with an
unparalleled opportunity to build a global consensus around critical
environmental issues. Implementation of the Earth Summit agreements is the
key to the summit's ultimate success.
Last
year, the House passed the Earth Summit Environmental Leadership Act, which
I introduced, along with all of the House delegates to the Earth Summit,
upon my return from Rio. Today, I will introduce similar legislation, with
33 original cosponsors, to implement Agenda21 and Senator Pell,
chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, will join me in
introducing identical legislation in the Senate.
The
Earth Summit Environmental Leadership Act outlines a comprehensive national
strategy for sustainable development, in accordance with the principles of Agenda21
, to be coordinated under the leadership of a specific office and the
direction of a high-level government official. It also urges the United
States to identify and initiate further agreements to protect the global
environment, and for the President to report to Congress on progress toward
achieving a national strategy to implement Agenda21 .
It
is critical that the United States set an example of sustainable
consumption and production patterns. My legislation outlines a number of
steps to attain this goal, including the elimination or reduction of
subsidies for the exploitation of natural resources, and to design a policy
framework for sustainble consumption patterns.
Environmental
protection is not only a national issue; it is a challenge for every
individual to make a difference. The principles embodied in Agenda21
present a framework for environmental action that should be pursued at all
levels of society--in our schools, local communities, governments, and in
our lifestyles. The concept of sustainable development should be realized
in all the major decisions affecting the future of our environment and the
preservation of its species. The Hopi Indians practiced a land-use policy
based on the 7th generation--that their relationship with the land would
not have adverse effects on future generations of Hopis. We should attempt
to do no less.
Senator
Pell has demonstrated a forceful leadership on global
environmental issues and I look forward to working in partnership with him
on this important initiative to achieve sustainable development in the
United States.
I
urge my colleagues to join me in cosponsoring the Earth Summit
Environmental Leadership Act to continue the progress of the Earth Summit.
·The very worst thing about “Agenda 21”
is, they are implementing it in an un-American way because it is anti-
American.They know if we the people
were asked to vote on it and ratify it by each state, it would never pass.
·They are all guilty.This is not about being a Democrat or a
Republican it’s about being an American.Every elected official who is sneaking this past the citizens of
this country is not worthy of calling themselves an American.
·There is no middle road here.You either support implementing Agenda 21
or you oppose implementing Agenda 21.Which flag is your flag?
AGENDA
21FREEDOM 21
·Make “Agenda 21” an election issue for
your Congressman.
·“Agenda 21” should be a public debate issue.Let’s bring “Agenda 21” out of the closet
and shine the bright light of scrutiny on the subject so all Americans know
what’s happening.
·To be a Freedom 21 Fighter you don’t have
to join anything.You don’t have to
pay any dues.You don’t have to attend
any meetings.You just have to learn
about Agenda 21 because you can’t fight something you know nothing
about.Then you must share your
knowledge with your friends and neighbors.And the next time you meet someone who is running for elected office,
any office, ask them where they stand on Agenda 21 “sustainable
development”.Be a Freedom 21
Fighter!
