sultations with Governments’’. The Secretary-Gen-
eral will host a ‘‘high-level meeting’’ on climate 
change at the United Nations General Assembly in 
September 2007 to give ‘‘political direction’’ to the 
thirteenth Convention Conference of the Parties 
(COP–13) to take place in December 2007 in Bali, 
Indonesia. 
SEC. 102. CONGRESSIONAL STATEMENT OF POLICY. 
Congress declares the following to be the policy of the 
United States: 
(1) To promote United States and global secu-
rity through leadership in cooperation with other na-
tions of the global effort to reduce and stabilize 
global greenhouse gas emissions and stabilize atmos-
pheric concentration of such gases. As such, the 
United States will seek to obtain mitigation commit-
ments from all major greenhouse gas emitting coun-
tries under the institutional framework provided by 
the United Nations Framework Convention on Cli-
mate Change (hereinafter in this section referred to 
as the ‘‘Convention’’). 
(2) To facilitate progress in global negotiations 
toward a comprehensive agreement under the Con-
vention, and in service of this goal, the United 
States will, during the course of 2007, engage in 
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high level dialogue on climate change within the 
Group of Eight (G–8), with the European Union, 
with Japan and other industrialized countries, and 
with China, India, Brazil, and other major devel-
oping countries. The United States will also partici-
pate in the initiative of the United Nations Sec-
retary-General to build consensus among govern-
ments on enhanced international cooperation on 
these matters. 
(3) To participate more actively and construc-
tively in the intergovernmental climate change proc-
ess, including at the thirteenth Convention Con-
ference of the Parties (COP–13) to take place in De-
cember 2007 in Bali, Indonesia. As such, at the 
COP–13 meeting, the United States will be rep-
resented by a high-level delegation composed of cli-
mate experts and career foreign service officers with 
extensive diplomatic experience, including experience 
in multi-lateral negotiations, headed by the Sec-
retary of State, the Secretary’s Deputy, or the Un-
dersecretary for Global Affairs of the Department of 
State. 
(4) To engage in serious discussion of possible 
future commitments under the Convention. These 
discussions will seek to develop a plan of action and 
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time-table with the goal of adopting a new inter-
national agreement under the Convention that stipu-
lates commitments from all major greenhouse gas 
emitters, including the United States and other 
countries listed in Annex 1 to the Convention, 
China, India, and Brazil, at the fifteenth Convention 
Conference of the Parties (COP–15) to take place in 
2009. This process will seek as its objective that a 
new instrument will come into force by the time the 
first commitment period under the Kyoto Protocol 
ends in 2012. 
(5) To protect United States national and eco-
nomic interests and United States competitiveness in 
all sectors by negotiating a new agreement under the 
Convention that is cost effective, comprehensive, 
flexible, and equitable. Such an agreement shall, at 
a minimum— 
(A) require binding mitigation commit-
ments from all major emitting countries based 
on their level of development; 
(B) provide for different forms of commit-
ments, including economy-wide emissions tar-
gets, policy-based commitments, sectoral agree-
ments, and no-regrets targets; 
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(C) increase cooperation on clean and effi-
cient energy technologies and practices; 
(D) target all greenhouse gases, including 
sources, sinks, and reservoirs of greenhouse 
gases, and should expand the current scope of 
the Kyoto Protocol and Convention to sectors 
not covered, such as the international aviation 
and maritime sectors; 
(E) include mechanisms to harness mar-
ket-based solutions, building upon the joint im-
plementation, clean development mechanism, 
and international emissions trading developed 
under the Protocol; 
(F) include incentives for sustainable for-
estry management that reflect the value of 
avoided deforestation; and 
(G) address the need for adaptation, espe-
cially for the most vulnerable and poorest coun-
tries on the planet. 
(6) To seek international consensus on long- 
term objectives including a target range for stabi-
lizing greenhouse gas concentrations. The target 
range should reflect the consensus recommendations 
of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 
(IPCC) scientists, who believe that concentrations of 
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greenhouse gases in the Earth’s atmosphere must be 
stabilized to provide a reasonable chance of limiting 
the rise in global temperatures to a level that might 
avert the most damaging impacts of climate change. 
SEC. 103. OFFICE ON GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT OF OFFICE.—There is estab-
lished within the Department of State an Office on Global 
Climate Change (hereinafter in this section referred to as 
the ‘‘Office’’). 
(b) HEAD OF OFFICE.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The head of the Office shall 
be the Ambassador-at-Large for Global Climate 
Change (hereinafter in this section referred to as the 
‘‘Ambassador-at-Large’’). 
(2) APPOINTMENT.—The Ambassador-at-Large 
shall be appointed by the President, by and with the 
advice and consent of the Senate. 
(c) DUTIES.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The primary responsibility 
of the Ambassador-at-Large shall be to advance the 
goals of the United States with respect to reducing 
the emissions of global greenhouse gases and ad-
dressing the challenges posed by global climate 
change. 
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