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• Senate delay means no bill likely before Copenhagen • German leader makes historic Congress address International negotiators lost one of the key elements to a successful deal on global warming today after Democratic leaders in the US Congress ruled out passing a climate change law before ...
businessgreen.com - 18 days ago
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Suzanne Goldenberg, The Guardian - Published under license
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Road to Copenhagen: No Senate Bill Before Copenhagen, What's Next?
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Well that's settled. There won't be a Senate bill before Copenhagen. Which means a lot of things: the US won't have concrete numbers on mitigation targets and finance commitments before COP15 convenes; the difficult job of the American negotiators just got even harder; the international community has even more cause to accuse the US of coming up short; the chances of a fair, ambitious and binding deal coming out of Copenhagen have taken... ...
Road to Copenhagen: No Senate Bill Before Copenhagen, What's Next?
Greenlight | OnEarth Magazine, from NRDC —
... Well that's settled. There won't be a Senate bill before Copenhagen. Which means a lot of things: the US won't have concrete numbers on mitigation targets and finance commitments before COP15 convenes; the difficult job of the American negotiators just got even harder; the international community has even more cause to accuse the US of coming up short; the chances of a fair, ambitious and binding deal coming out of Copenhagen have taken a serious blow; and finally, any hope for the talks to succeed depends on a dramatic shift in how the State Department approaches the ...
Who's to Blame for All the Dithering on Climate Legislation?
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... " for reducing carbon pollution. Procedural delays and the protracted battle over health care legislation ensure that a bill to tackle the climate crisis and rebuild our economy will not pass this year. However, the urgent need for clean energy reform continues to build, and some politicians are beginning to heed the grassroots ...
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