Hillary Clinton

ismnotwasm

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32. Here's a decent article that addresses why It didn't go farther

Wed Dec 16, 2015, 10:03 AM

Dec 2015

That hybrid legal structure was explicitly designed in response to the political reality in the United States. A deal that would have assigned legal requirements for countries to cut emissions at specific levels would need to go before the United States Senate for ratification. That language would have been dead on arrival in the Republican-controlled Senate, where many members question the established science of human-caused climate change, and still more wish to thwart Mr. Obama’s climate change agenda.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/13/world/europe/climate-change-accord-paris.html

I also, in courtesy, suggest reading the agreement itself

http://unfccc.int/resource/docs/2015/cop21/eng/l09r01.pdf

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It's an excellent start 7 years in the making with all the 200 countries that have signed on.. Cha Dec 2015 #10

Here's a decent article that addresses why It didn't go farther ismnotwasm Dec 2015 #32

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So very few.. so few Cha Dec 2015 #12

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You're Welcome, Riversedge! I'm glad you got to see it.. Cha Dec 2015 #18

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