Posted on 09/23/2014 9:16:12 AM PDT by illiac
President Barack Obama is pledging new U.S. help for other nations struggling to address global warming, as heads of state from around the world converge for a major summit on climate change.
Obama will use his speech at a U.N. summit Tuesday to announce plans to sign an executive order requiring the U.S. government to take climate change into account when it spends money overseas to help poorer countries, the White House said. The U.S. will also offer vulnerable communities abroad new tools to address the effects of climate change through science and technology.
The measures join a host of commitments Obama will announce at the summit, where more than 120 world leaders will gather on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly to galvanize support for a global climate treaty to be finalized next year in Paris. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, the summit's host, is expecting leaders to come with specific pledges in hand to mitigate climate change, as a way to show they're serious about ambitious emissions reductions in the treaty.
Obama's goals at the summit: to convince other nations that the U.S. is doing its part to curb greenhouse gases, and make the case that other major polluters should step up, too.
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There is a LOT of climate change in the middle east....... In MB allied countries....
Damn...I thought part of the Revolutionary War was to get rid of the king.
Typical Obama move, 180 degrees out of phase. The world is not warming, it is cooling.
The left said OBL was Bush’s boogeyman.... but this global warming is the real deal. I hope al goron s private plane takes a nose dive.
“other nations struggling to address global warming,”
What other nations? Specifics please!
Get the hook. Get that SOB off the stage. His act sucks.
The Executive branch can only decide how to distribute funds allocated to them by the Legislative branch, as far as I understand it, so if the Executive branch wants to toss their budget to other countries then that's their prerogative, although a dumb one.
Obama can not simply proclaim that Congress must take anything into account when Congress decides on a budget, assuming they ever do again with all of these continuing resolutions.
It will be interesting to see how this plays out.
Add this to the list of EO’s that President Cruz will be reversing....
Bump!
Details are that he is going to order that the impact on “climate change” be taken into consideration when handing out foreign aid.
“Sorry, starving African villagers. The carbon costs of your community clean water well project have been deemed too high.”
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