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Obama says parts of climate deal must be legally binding
2015-12-01 14:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Parts of a global climate agreement being hammered out in Paris should be legally binding, President Barack Obama said Tuesday. The declaration was a boost to climate negotiators seeking a tough accord and a challenge to Republican senators, many of whom dont believe that global warming is real. Whether or not to make the climate accord legally binding is a major sticking point at the two-week talks in Paris, which aim to get all countries to agree to cut emissions that scientists say are warming...
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Paris climate deal must be legally binding, EU tells John Kerry
2015-11-12 15:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The EU has warned the Obama administration that a global climate deal at the Paris summit must be legally binding, after the US secretary of state John Kerry said that it definitively would not be a treaty The Paris agreement must be an international legally binding agreement, a spokeswoman for the EUs climate commissioner, Miguel Arias Caete , told the Guardian. The title of the agreement is yet to be decided but it will not affect its legally binding form. Earlier today, the French...
Paris climate deal will not be legally binding treaty
2015-11-12 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Financial Times: High quality global journalism requires investment. Please share this article with others using the link below, do not cut & paste the article. See our Ts&Cs and Copyright Policy for more detail. Email ftsales.support@ft.com to buy additional rights. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/79daf872-8894-11e5-90de-f44762bf9896.html#ixzz3rIPQdxeT John Kerry, US secretary of state, has warned that Decembers Paris climate change talks will not deliver a treaty that legally requires countries to cut their carbon...
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John Kerry Says Paris Climate Deal Will Not Be Legally Binding: Report
2015-11-11 17:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
NDTV: A crunch climate summit in Paris will not deliver a legally binding treaty requiring countries to cut carbon emissions, US Secretary of State John Kerry told the Financial Times on Wednesday. "It's definitively not going to be a treaty... They're not going to be legally binding reduction targets like Kyoto or something," Kerry said, according to the newspaper, referring to the 1997 Kyoto protocol committing states to limit emissions. The UN Conference of Parties (COP21) meeting of some 100...
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2015-11-06 22:59:25| Livestock - Topix.net
A resolution has been introduced in the U.S. House to impeach IRS Commissioner John Koskinen for violation of the public trust, failing to comply with congressionally-issued subpoenas, and misleading the public over the IRS' practices of targeting conservative groups in audits. The last time Congress tried to remove a public official via impeachment was in 1876, when Secretary of War William Belknap was impeached on allegations he had helped himself to war funds.