Senators Introduce Resolution Calling for Senate Approval of Any Paris Climate Agreement

A bipartisan group of senators introduced a resolution last week expressing the sense of the Senate that any agreement reached at the climate talks in Paris next month “shall have no force or effect” unless the Senate gives its “advice and consent”.

 

According to the resolution jointly introduced on Thursday by Senators Jim Inhofe (R-OK), Joe Manchin (D-WV), and Roy Blunt (R-MO.),  “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…”

 

“The U.S. Senate must be able to exercise its constitutional role to approve any agreement that emerges from the Paris climate talks,” Manchin explained in a press release.

 

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