IV 
114TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. CON. RES. 105 
Expressing the sense of Congress regarding the ‘‘Paris Agreement’’ announced 
on December 12, 2015, at the 21st session of the United Nations 
Framework Convention on Climate Change. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
DECEMBER 18, 2015 
Mr. MCKINLEY (for himself, Mr. ROTHFUS, Mr. GRIFFITH, and Mr. BARR) 
submitted the following concurrent resolution; which was referred to the 
Committee on Foreign Affairs 
CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 
Expressing the sense of Congress regarding the ‘‘Paris 
Agreement’’ announced on December 12, 2015, at the 
21st session of the United Nations Framework Conven-
tion on Climate Change. 
Whereas the United Nations Framework Convention on Cli-
mate Change (in this resolution referred to as the ‘‘Con-
vention’’), adopted in May 1992, entered into force in 
1994 and is being implemented; 
Whereas the Paris Agreement, adopted in December 2015, is 
another attempt by the Convention’s ‘‘Conference of Par-
ties’’ to globally address climate change, similar to the 
Kyoto Protocol, the Durban Platform, the Copenhagen 
Accord, and the Cancun Agreements, all of which have 
failed to meaningfully slow global carbon emissions; 
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Whereas the Paris Agreement does not contain binding spe-
cific targets, compliance mechanisms, enforcement provi-
sions, penalties, or rewards; 
Whereas the Paris Agreement fails to consider adequately 
economies that would be negatively impacted by measures 
to respond to climate change, including those found with-
in the United States, as addressed in Article 4, Para-
graph 10 of the Convention; 
Whereas the Paris Agreement has not been submitted to the 
United States Senate for review and ratification; 
Whereas the Paris Agreement could result in serious harm to 
the United States economy, including significant job loss, 
increased energy and consumer costs, risks to grid reli-
ability, or any combination thereof; 
Whereas by using the free market the United States has sig-
nificantly reduced carbon dioxide emissions to the lowest 
they have been in 15 years, and the United States en-
ergy-related carbon dioxide emissions are projected to re-
main below 2005 levels through 2040, while such emis-
sions in the developing world are projected to grow to 
120 percent above 2005 levels by 2040; 
Whereas the People’s Republic of China is the world’s largest 
emitter of carbon dioxide and, in accordance with the 
2014 agreement with the Obama Administration, intends 
to increase its coal consumption until 2030; 
Whereas the Republic of India announced that, notwith-
standing the Paris Agreement, it will continue its reliance 
on coal and plans to double the nation’s coal output with-
in the next 5 years; 
Whereas, according to an October 2015 MIT Technology Re-
view report, increased coal consumption in the Republic 
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of India will negate any global efforts to limit carbon di-
oxide, regardless of anything that the United States does 
to decrease its emissions; and 
Whereas the emissions reduction goals of the Paris Agree-
ment cannot be met without the global development and 
deployment of critical new technologies, including energy 
storage technologies and advanced nuclear reactors, as 
well as commercial-scale carbon, capture, utilization, and 
storage technologies that are not currently viable eco-
nomically and will require substantial investment into 
further research: Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate 
concurring), That it is the sense of Congress that the 
Paris Agreement, adopted in December 2015, should not 
be signed, ratified, acceded to or adopted by the United 
States. 
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