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Waxman on Sign a Global Treaty

Jan 19, 2009
Solution: 
Sign a Global Treaty
  • Vows to have climate legislation out of committee by Memorial Day, which would put the U.S. in position to have laws in place by the Copenhagen summit
  • Recognizes a U.S. obligation to help keep global temperatures from rising more than 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels
  • Before Kyoto in 1997, Waxman encouraged the U.S. to set fair, enforceable, and legally binding targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions substantially below 1990 levels.
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