[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 945 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. RES. 945

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


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            December 3, 2009

Mr. Lamborn (for himself, Mr. Young of Alaska, Mr. McCotter, Ms. Foxx, 
  Mr. Latta, Mr. Franks of Arizona, Mr. Chaffetz, Mrs. Blackburn, Mr. 
  Harper, Mr. Pitts, Mrs. Lummis, Ms. Fallin, Mr. Brady of Texas, Mr. 
King of Iowa, Mr. Posey, Mr. Luetkemeyer, Mr. Culberson, Mr. Barton of 
 Texas, Mr. Gingrey of Georgia, Mr. Bishop of Utah, Mr. Bartlett, Mr. 
Tiberi, Mr. Bachus, Mr. Broun of Georgia, Mr. Cole, Mr. Garrett of New 
 Jersey, Mr. Coffman of Colorado, and Mr. Sensenbrenner) submitted the 
 following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign 
                                Affairs

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                               RESOLUTION


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

Whereas the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, adopted in 
        May 1992, entered into force in 1994;
Whereas the 1997 Kyoto Protocol entered into force in 2005 without United States 
        ratification;
Whereas greenhouse gas emissions from many of the developed nation signatories 
        to the Kyoto Protocol have failed to decline since the treaty was signed 
        and indeed the emissions reduction performance of the United States as a 
        nonparty exceeds that of many parties;
Whereas greenhouse gas emissions from the developing nations exempted under 
        Kyoto have risen dramatically since 1997, especially those from China, 
        and are expected to continue growing at a pace seven times faster than 
        those of the United States and other developed nations in the decades 
        ahead;
Whereas studies have found high costs associated with Europe's attempt to reduce 
        emissions under Kyoto, and also predicted high costs had the United 
        States ratified and complied with its provisions;
Whereas the emissions reduction targets in Kyoto expire in 2012 and proponents 
        of successor treaty negotiations in Copenhagen have stated that post-
        2012 targets need to be more stringent and therefore costlier than those 
        under Kyoto; and
Whereas proponents of a successor treaty at Copenhagen have expressed the need 
        to impose internationally binding, verifiable, and enforceable targets 
        on the United States, raising concerns about American sovereignty; Now, 
        therefore be it
    Resolved, That it is the sense of the House of Representatives 
that--
            (1) the United States should not be a signatory to any 
        protocol or other agreement regarding the United Nations 
        Framework Convention on Climate Change of 1992, at negotiations 
        in Copenhagen in December 2009 or thereafter, which would--
                    (A) result in significant harm to the economy of 
                the United States; or
                    (B) compromise American sovereignty by requiring 
                the United States to submit to decisions of 
                international inspection, compliance, and enforcement 
                mechanisms; and
            (2) the United States should demand in any such discussions 
        or negotiations that any protocol or agreement must not mandate 
        new commitments to limit or reduce greenhouse gas emissions for 
        the United States and other Annex I Developed Country Parties 
        without binding, verifiable, and enforceable commitments to 
        limit or reduce greenhouse gas emissions for Developing Country 
        Parties within the same compliance period.
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