PRESIDENT TO TAKE ACTION ON CLIMATE

Obama Pursuing Climate Accord in Lieu of Treaty

Coral Davenport, August 26, 2014 (NY Times)

“The Obama administration is working to forge a sweeping international climate change agreement to compel nations to cut their planet-warming fossil fuel emissions, but without ratification from Congress…[N]egotiators are meeting with diplomats from other countries to broker a deal [to be signed at a 2015 United Nations Paris summit] to commit some of the world’s largest economies to enact laws to reduce their carbon pollution...To sidestep [the Constitutional requirement of a two-thirds majority of the Senate approval of legally binding treaties], President Obama’s climate negotiators are devising what they call a ‘politically binding’ deal that would ‘name and shame’ countries into cutting their emissions…[It would likely face] strong objections from Republicans on Capitol Hill and from poor countries around the world, but negotiators say it may be the only realistic path…” click here for more

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