Claim: President Obama's proposal calls for serious cuts in our own long-term carbon emissions, but China and India will still be allowed to increase their emissions.

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 1
Passage: The country submitted a proposed protocol which would have imposed deeper, legally binding emissions cuts, including on developing nations.

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 1
Passage: To cut carbon emissions by 15% below 2000 levels by 2020 if there is an agreement where major developing economies commit to substantially restrain emissions and advanced economies take on commitments comparable to Australia.

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 0
Passage: In 2014, Obama reached an agreement with China in which China pledged to reach peak carbon emission levels by 2030, while the US pledged to cut its emissions by 26-28 percent compared to its 2005 levels.

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 0
Passage: The White House announced on 25 November 2009 that President Barack Obama is offering a U.S. target for reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the range of 17% below 2005 levels by 2020.

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 0
Passage: "U.S. and China announce steps to join the Paris accord that set nation-by-nation targets for cutting carbon emissions".

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 0
Passage: In June 2015, the Obama administration released the President's 21st Century Clean Transportation Plan with the goal of reducing carbon pollution by converting the nation's century old infrastructure into one based on clean energy.This plan intended to battle climate change by reducing emissions through a switch to more sustainable forms of transportation, resulting from a potential increase of innovation in both public transit and electric vehicle production in the United States.The President stated that the revitalization of the infrastructure would not only create jobs, but also allow for quicker deliveries of goods, and allow for a greater variety of transportation options that would facilitate travel for Americans.The President's multibillion dollar proposal provided incentives to reduce reliance on international oil and fossil fuels.

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 0
Passage: The Clean Power Plan was an Obama administration policy aimed at combating anthropogenic climate change (global warming) that was first proposed by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in June 2014.

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 0
Passage: Institutional asset owners associations and think-tanks have also observed that the stated objectives of the Paris Agreement are implicitly "predicated upon an assumption – that member states of the United Nations, including high polluters such as China, the US, India, Russia, Japan, Germany, South Korea, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Canada, Indonesia and Mexico, which generate more than half the world's greenhouse gas emissions, will somehow drive down their carbon pollution voluntarily and assiduously without any binding enforcement mechanism to measure and control CO 2 emissions at any level from factory to state, and without any specific penalty gradation or fiscal pressure (for example a carbon tax) to discourage bad behaviour."

Relevance (1 = gold evidence, 0 = mined hard negative): 0
Passage: In 2014, President Barack Obama proposed a series of Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations, known as the Clean Power Plan that would reduce carbon pollution from coal-fired power plants.

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Passage: Countries are making large efforts to fight and reduce the effects of climate change; however, in order to see improvements, more countries with large emissions such as China and India will need to reform and cut emissions by large percentages.