Paris Agreement Will Fail Just Like Kyoto Agreement, U.S. Republicans Predict

UN Members Fear U.S. Supreme Court May ‘Sabotage’ Obama’s Climate Commitments

Remember The BBC's Kyoto Treaty Propaganda?
 

 

Perhaps one of the best known phrases regarding the lessons of history is, “Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” Attempting to “decarbonize” the world economy given the depth of the current economic and political costs of actually doing so is akin to defying gravity. --Majority Staff White Paper, United States Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, 21 April 2016
 

Senate Republicans are trying to dampen excitement for the Paris climate change agreement, saying it is destined to fail. In a 30-page white paper Thursday, Republicans on the Environment and Public Works Committee argued that the Paris deal is no more likely to result in major greenhouse gas emissions cuts than 1997’s Kyoto Protocol. --Timothy Cama, The Hill, 21 April 2016
 
There are concerns at the United Nations about apparent attempts inside the United States to “sabotage” President Barack Obama’s commitments to reducing greenhouse gas emissions, the head of the U.N. General Assembly said on Wednesday. Mogens Lykketoft of Denmark, current president of the 193-nation General Assembly, issued the warning ahead of Friday’s U.N. signing ceremony for the Paris agreement. “What scares us a little … is there is all this sabotage inside the United States against this commitment for climate change, including (with) the Supreme Court,” he said. Lykketoft said he was not taking a partisan position in the election, but added that the next U.S. leader should not be someone intent on backtracking on the Obama administration’s commitments. -- Louis Charbonneau, Reuters, 20 April 2016

The Chinese government is examining whether it doled out money for fake electric car sales. The investigation casts doubt on the accuracy of reported Chinese electric-vehicle sales. The government now plans to phase out the subsidies after 2020. --Jie Ma and Craig Trudell, Bloomberg, 21 April 2016

The Governing Council of The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) has decided to end TERI’s association with R K Pachauri with immediate effect. After much public pressure, Pachauri was removed from the post of director general in July 2015, two months after he was indicted in an internal probe by the internal complaints committee (ICC) of Teri. Last month, the Delhi police filed a charge sheet running into 1,500 pages against Pachauri under five sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC). . --Times of India, 21 April 2016

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