HRES 218
114th Congress
House
International Affairs
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Economic performance and conditions
Intellectual property
International law and treaties
Property rights
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.
Introduced: April 21, 2015
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Everywhere this bill has been
2 steps
Introduced
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To President
Became law
Apr 21, 2015
Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
Apr 21, 2015
Introduced in House
Plain-English summary
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:
- 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,
- 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,
- result in serious harm to the U.S. economy, and
- not adequately protect U.S. intellectual property rights.
What's happening now
Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
Committees of jurisdiction
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