[Let_It_Be_So]

Developed countries signed the Kyoto Protocol in 1997. They agreed to legally binding commitments on curbing greenhouse gas emissions blamed for global warming.

 

Whatever Clinton agreed to in '97 was not legally binding on this country because Congress (the Senate) never acted on it.  Is this correct?

[Montanabound]

The Senate adopted a resolution in 1997 stating that ‘the United States should not be a signatory to any protocol to, or other agreement regarding, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change of 1992, at negotiations in Kyoto.’ The vote was 93-0. So, you’re right, the treaty was not even brought up by the Senate for passage.