Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives regarding the conditions for the United States becoming a signatory to any international agreement on greenhouse gas emissions under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

Bill: 114-hres-218
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Sensenbrenner, F. James, Jr. [R-WI-5]
Introduced: 2015-04-21
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Climate change and greenhouse gases

Economic performance and conditions

Intellectual property

International law and treaties

Property rights
Latest action: action_date: 2015-04-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.

Summaries:
action_date: 2015-04-21
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>It is the sense of the House of Representatives that the United States should not be a signatory to any protocol to, or other agreement regarding, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change of 1992 which would: </p> <ul> <li>mandate new commitments to limit or reduce greenhouse gas emissions for the Annex I Parties unless the protocol or agreement also mandates new specific scheduled commitments to limit or reduce greenhouse gas emissions for Non-Annex I Parties within the same compliance period, </li> <li>not ensure that all parties to the agreement reduce an equal amount of greenhouse gas emissions at an equivalent rate within the same compliance period, </li> <li>result in serious harm to the U.S. economy, and </li> <li>not adequately protect U.S. intellectual property rights.</li> </ul>

tv_txt: IV 114th CONGRESS 1st Session H. RES. 218 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES April 21, 2015 Mr. Sensenbrenner (for himself, Mr. Smith of Texas , and Mr. Ryan of Wisconsin ) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs RESOLUTION Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives regarding the conditions for the United States becoming a signatory to any international agreement on greenhouse gas emissions under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

That it is the sense of the House of Representatives that the United States should not be a signatory to any protocol to, or other agreement regarding, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change of 1992, at negotiations in Paris in December 2015, or thereafter, which would— (1) mandate new commitments to limit or reduce greenhouse gas emissions for the Annex I Parties, unless the protocol or other agreement also mandates new specific scheduled commitments to limit or reduce greenhouse gas emissions for Non-Annex I Parties within the same compliance period; (2) not ensure that all parties to the agreement reduce an equal amount of greenhouse gas emissions at an equivalent rate within the same compliance period; (3) result in serious harm to the economy of the United States; and (4) not adequately protect United States intellectual property rights.