A resolution expressing the sense of the Senate regarding an agreement reached at the United Nations Climate Change Conference held in Paris in December 2015.

Bill: 114-sres-329
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Inhofe, James M. [R-OK]
Introduced: 2015-12-07
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Administrative law and regulatory procedures

Climate change and greenhouse gases

Competitiveness, trade promotion, trade deficits

Congressional oversight

Environmental regulatory procedures

Environmental technology

International law and treaties

International organizations and cooperation

Technology transfer and commercialization

United Nations
Latest action: action_date: 2015-12-07
text: Referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. (text of measure as introduced: CR S8440)

Summaries:
action_date: 2015-12-07
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p>Expresses the sense of the Senate that a protocol, amendment, extension, or other agreement (agreement) relating to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, entered into force March 21, 1994, shall have no force or effect in the United States and no funds shall be authorized in its support, including for the Green Climate Fund, until it has been submitted to Senate for advice and consent, if the agreement: </p> <ul> <li> fulfills mitigation commitments through existing and future regulations that would put our national industries at a disadvantage compared to the industries of developing countries; </li> <li>includes a financial commitment that will not go into effect without subsequent congressional legislation or authorization; </li> <li>represents an agreement to be overseen by an international administrative entity covering a wide range of topics, including mitigation, adaptation, finance, technology transfer, capacity building, transparency, implementation, and compliance; or </li> <li>establishes a mechanism to assess contributions or commitments for future compliance.</li></ul>

tv_txt: III 114th CONGRESS 1st Session S. RES. 329 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES December 7, 2015 Mr. Inhofe (for himself, Mr. Blunt , Mr. Manchin , and Mrs. Capito ) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations RESOLUTION Expressing the sense of the Senate regarding an agreement reached at the United Nations Climate Change Conference held in Paris in December 2015.

Whereas, on May 9, 1992, the Senate gave the advice and consent of the Senate regarding the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, with annexes, done at New York May 9, 1992, and entered into force March 21, 1994 (referred to in this preamble as the Convention ), a treaty that was intended to address the global emissions of greenhouse gases; Whereas the Convention was ratified under the express limitation that a decision by the Conference of the Parties to adopt targets and timetables would have to be submitted to the Senate for its advice and consent. ; Whereas after the Convention entered into force, parties began negotiating a subsidiary agreement to contain binding greenhouse gas emissions reductions, which resulted in the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, done at Kyoto on December 10, 1997; Whereas the United States is not a party to the Kyoto Protocol; Whereas the Clinton Administration did not submit the Kyoto Protocol to the Senate for the advice and consent of the Senate; Whereas, on July 25, 1997, the Senate agreed to S. Res. 98 of the 105th Congress by a vote of 95 to 0; and Whereas the parties to the Convention operating under the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action will convene in Paris in December 2015 to replace the Kyoto Protocol with a protocol, another legal instrument or an agreed outcome with legal force aimed at limiting greenhouse gas emissions: Now, therefore, be it

That — (1) it is the sense of the Senate that any protocol, amendment, extension, or other agreement relating to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, with annexes, done at New York May 9, 1992, and entered into force March 21, 1994, shall have no force or effect in the United States and no funds shall be authorized in support of that protocol, amendment, extension, or other agreement, including for the Green Climate Fund, until that protocol, amendment, extension, or other agreement has been submitted to Senate for advice and consent, if that protocol, amendment, extension, or other agreement— (A) fulfills mitigation commitments through existing and future regulations that would put our national industries at a disadvantage compared to the industries of developing countries; (B) includes a financial commitment that will not go into effect without subsequent congressional legislation or authorization; (C) represents an agreement to be overseen by an international administrative entity covering a wide range of topics, including mitigation, adaptation, finance, technology transfer, capacity building, transparency, implementation, and compliance; or (D) establishes a mechanism to assess contributions or commitments for future compliance; and (2) the Senate directs the Secretary of the Senate to transmit an enrolled copy of this resolution to the President.