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Original publisher: [Washington, D.C.] : U.S. General Accounting Office, [2003] OCLC Number: (OCoLC)52204339 Subject: Environmental policy -- United States. Excerpt: ... Table 5: U.S. Contributions Under the Desertification Convention, by Region, Fiscal Year 2001 Dollars in millions Region Africa $ 53.8 Asia and Near East 14.4 Europe and Eurasia 4.2 Latin America and Caribbean 12.7 Total $ 85.1 Source: AID. From the beginning of 1997 through the end of calendar year 2002, the Reporting United States agreed to submit 23 reports on implementation and related issues for the 5 agreements: CITES, 8 ( 6 annual and 2 biennial ); the Desertification Convention, 1; the Framework Convention, 2; the Montreal Protocol, 6; and the North American Agreement, 6. We reviewed recent reports submitted under the five agreements and found that they contained the information required. However, we also found that the United States did not promptly submit about 43 percent of the reports it had agreed to submit. Many other parties were also late in submitting their reports, and according to State Department and other agency officials the U.S. tardiness generally had no significant effect on the agreements ' secretariats or on other parties. We reviewed recent reports under each agreement for completeness and found that they contained the information required. For example, under CITES the United States met its commitment to provide an annual report on, among other things, the number and type of permits and certificates it granted related to trade in listed wildlife species, the nations with which such trade occurred, and the numbers or quantities and types of specimens. Similarly, under the Framework Convention, the United States met its commitment to publish reports that contained, among other things, detailed information on its policies and measures to mitigate climate change and its projected human-caused emissions for the period 1990 to 2000. The Convention also required each party
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International environment: U.S. actions to fulfill commitments under five key agreements: report to the ranking minority member
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