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Title: Ivanka Trump to Head Review of U.S. Role in Paris Climate Change Agreement
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Breitbart
URL Source: http://www.breitbart.com/big-govern ... aris-climate-change-agreement/
Published: May 9, 2017
Author: Penny Starr
Post Date: 2017-05-09 08:34:01 by cranky
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Views: 1750
Comments: 4
The agreement requires countries to cut greenhouse emissions on a country-by-country basis, with Obama committing the U.S. to reduce carbon emissions by at least 26 percent below 2005 levels by 2025. The agreement requires countries to cut greenhouse emissions on a country-by-country basis, with Obama committing the U.S. to reduce carbon emissions by at least 26 percent below 2005 levels by 2025. The U.S. is expected to have a representative at the United Nations’ climate change meeting in Bonn, Germany, next week but Trump’s advisers — including daughter Ivanka and Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt — are meeting on Tuesday in Washington to decide whether to stick with or withdraw from the deal. The U.S. is expected to have a representative at the United Nations’ climate change meeting in Bonn, Germany, next week but Trump’s advisers — including daughter Ivanka and Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt — are meeting on Tuesday in Washington to decide whether to stick with or withdraw from the deal. Last month, in an interview with FOX and Friends, Pruitt said that the “Paris [agreement] is something that we need to really look at closely. It’s something we need to exit, in my opinion. It’s a bad deal for America. It was an America second, third, or fourth kind of approach. “China and India had no obligations under the agreement until 2030,” Pruitt added. “We front-loaded all of our costs.” Trump, on the other hand, has expressed support for the agreement and has backing from some in the U.S. oil and gas industry, including Exxon Mobil, which was led by Rex Tillerson before he was nominated for Secretary of State, a post he now holds. “The industry campaign to stick with the Paris accord comes amid deep divisions in the Trump administration over the carbon-cutting agreement,” Bloomberg reported last month. “Both the president’s daughter, Ivanka Trump, and her husband, Jared Kushner, a White House special adviser, have urged the president to stay in the deal, along with Tillerson.” “The decision to participate in next week’s U.N. climate talks shouldn’t be construed as a sign that Trump has decided to stay in the Paris pact,” a State Department official told the AP. “To the contrary, the U.S. will be sending a ‘much smaller’ delegation than it has in years past, the official said, adding that they weren’t authorized to discuss specifics and requested anonymity from the AP. According to the United Nations, 144 of the 197 countries that signed the Paris agreement have ratified it. It is unclear which 53 countries have not ratified it. 
Ivanka Trump has been tapped by her father, President Donald Trump, to review the United States’ commitment to the Paris Climate Change agreement, signed by former President Barack Obama as an executive agreement in 2015 without congressional approval, the Associated Press is reporting.
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#1. To: cranky (#0)
Swell !! /sarc Si vis pacem, para bellum Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. Never Pick A Fight With An Old Man He Will Just Shoot You He Can't Afford To Get Hurt I am concerned for the security of our great nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within." -- General Douglas MacArthur
Yeah. The fix is in.
Trump still can't do anything if the Senate won't ratify it, no matter what First Brat Ivanka has to say about it to Daddy. It is considered to have been acceded to by the Paris Accords itself but that accession is based only upon the signature of 0bama, not any ratification. No courts or the Congress or federal agencies can act on an unratified treaty. And the courts will uphold that requirement. Trump could formally withdraw or he could still kill it by a thousand paper cuts. It was always an open question and a matter of strategy exactly how Trump would exit from the Accords. Some have argued that he should stay in to make more trouble for it since once he leaves it, he'll have no more influence. Recall the Kyoto Treaty under Bush. It had legal international enforcement mechanisms for countries who did not meet their targets. The Paris Accords have no enforcement and a lot of countries have 0% reductions required or a pittance. Of the rest, the only significant players are America (17.89%), China (20.09%), Russia (7.53%). Everyone else is at or well below 3% reductions. Clear offenders like Japan (3.79%), India (4.1%) and Brazil (2.48%) are in the second-tier for reductions. And, of course, everyone except the U.S. will cheat on everything in the Accord, just as they always do. It's a sucker game. Hobble the States by getting some loopy Lefty president in cahoots with a despicable internationalist like Soros to get the U.S. signed up to cripple its economy. Then let the EPA use the courts to sue and fine everyone who "violates" this unratified treaty. Another foul scheme that was thwarted (for now) by Trump beating Hitlery.
Strange, I don't remember voting for that dingbat to represent me.
" Ivanka Trump to Head Review of U.S. Role in Paris Climate Change Agreement "
#2. To: Stoner (#1)
Swell !! /sarc
#3. To: cranky (#0)
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Ivanka Trump to Head Review of U.S. Role in Paris Climate Change Agreement
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