A U.S.-centric Chronology of the International Climate Change Negotiations

Leggett, Jane A.

Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service.

关键词: Environmental protection;    Climatic changes;    Global climate changes;    International affairs;    International economic cooperation;   

RP-ID  :  R40001
RP-ID  :  R40001_2010Jan07

美国|英语

来源: UNT Digital Library

【 摘 要 】

The Copenhagen conference in December 2009 achieved only mandates to continue negotiating toward the next Conference of the Parties (COP) to be held in Mexico City in December 2010. As a background to these proceedings, this document provides a U.S.-centric chronology of the international policy deliberations to address climate change from 1979-2009. Negotiations underway since 2007 have run on two tracks, the Kyoto Protocol the Convention under the Bali Action Plan. Many in the U.S. Congress are concerned with the goals and obligations that a treaty or other form of agreement might embody. For U.S. legislators, additional issues include the compatibility of any international agreement with U.S. domestic policies and laws; the adequacy of appropriations, fiscal measures, and programs to achieve any commitments under the agreement; and the desirable form of the agreement and related requirements, with a view toward potential Senate ratification of the agreement and federal legislation to assure that U.S. commitments are met.