Obama's Climate Change Envoy Urges Global Warming Treaty, Offers Few Specifics

CNS NEWS.com ^ | Thursday, April 23, 2009 | By Penny Starr, Senior Staff Writer

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SNIPPET: "“The time has come for the United States to reclaim its rightful role as a diplomatic leader within the U.N. framework of climate change,” Kerry said.

At the end of the first panel, Kerry defended the lack of detail in Stern’s testimony.

“In fairness – I said this to Sen. Corker – Todd Stern made it clear to me prior to coming up here that not all of the T’s were crossed and I’s dotted,” the Massachusetts senator said.

“I knew he was coming here today without the ability to fully flesh out every single component,” Kerry said. “I still think (Stern’s testimony is) important, and I think it’s contributed significantly to people’s understanding of the process, where we’re heading and how we are going to get from here to there.”

The conference in Copenhagen has a genesis in the United Nations Framework Convention of Climate Change that dates back more than a decade and includes the Kyoto Protocol.

The Kyoto Protocol was opposed by the Bush administration because it required stricter sanctions on reducing greenhouse gas emissions for developed industrialized countries than developing industrialized countries, including China and India, both considered heavy contributors to global carbon emissions.

When Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced Stern’s selection as climate change envoy earlier this year, she confirmed the administration expected dramatic departure from the Bush administration’s climate policy.

“With the appointment today of a Special Envoy, we are sending an unequivocal message that the United States will be energetic, focused, strategic and serious about addressing global climate change and the corollary issue of clean energy,” Clinton said.

“Now our Special Envoy’s work will augment the ongoing work of this Department which has been our nation’s leader when it comes to international efforts on climate change since the late 1980s through the establishment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and negotiations related to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol, as well as scores of other bilateral and multilateral climate-related initiatives,” she said.

“The Special Envoy will serve as a principal advisor on international climate policy and strategy,” Clinton said. “He will be the Administration’s chief climate negotiator. He will be leading our efforts with United Nations negotiations and processes involving a smaller set of countries and bilateral sessions.”

Stern has accompanied Clinton on her recent trips to China and Japan and also to the climate change conference in Bonn, Germany."

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Obama’s Climate Change Envoy Urges Global Warming Treaty, Offers Few Specifics

This is what happens when you allow the children to be in charge..
Global Warming Treaty?? With who ? The Sun ?
Does that mean we get to sue the Sun or maybe launch an attackagainst it IF it keeps getting warmer IF it really is gettting warmer?
These people are IDIOTS............