Posted on 03/08/2016 6:47:37 AM PST by george76
The first chunk of a $3bn commitment made at the Paris climate talks ‘shows the US stands squarely behind climate commitments’, the State Department said.
The Obama administration has made a first installment on its $3bn pledge to help poor countries fight climate change – defying Republican opposition to the resident’s environmental plan.
The $500m payment to the Green Climate Fund was seen as critical to shoring up international confidence in Barack Obama’s ability to deliver on the pledges made at the United Nations’ climate change conference in Paris in late 2015.
Obama is expected to announce a number of joint climate initiatives when Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau visits Washington this week...
The White House is also working with United Nations officials to encourage countries to formally approve the Paris climate agreement ahead of a signing ceremony on 22 April.
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Administration officials said the initial $500m payment to the Green Climate Fund demonstrated that Obama would follow through on the promises of last December’s Paris climate agreement – despite February’s setback at the supreme court and threats by Republican presidential candidates to dismantle Obama’s agenda.
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The supreme court last month agreed to block the centerpiece of Obama’s climate plan – new rules cutting emissions from power plants – until lower courts rule on legal challenges from 29 states and dozens of industry groups. The ruling created immediate uncertainty about the fate of the power plant rules and the Paris agreement.
Obama’s climate plan is also under political attack from Republican presidential contenders who say they will scrap the rules and dismantle the Environmental Protection Agency if they take the White House next November.
Republicans in Congress have also threatened to scrap the power plant rules and block any US contributions to the Green Climate Fund,
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My Hero Trump was not in office at the time but that’s about to change sooner rather than later!-)
Meanwhile the rube skipped and the cruz showed his management/leadership capabilities to be null and void!
” the cruz showed his management/leadership capabilities to be null and void!”
How so? The leadership of the Senate voted for this monstrosity by soliciting almost unanimous Democrat support.
So how is it that Cruz had no leadership? Shouldn’t your hate be directed at Mitch and his cronies?
Or do you even know what happened and are just spouting off/
and I wish he had a much younger version of himself that we could vote for.
The closest thing in this election is Cruz, and he has my vote.
No Hate here just pointing out that Cruz and the RUbe are part of the problem and again Cruz showed no leadership skills. He wants to be Preezy but can’t even rally his fellow senaWHORES to his side of the argument.
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