From our Testimony in front of the Senate Energy and Public Works Committee on Examining the International Climate Negotiations on November 18, 2015:
1. The Obama Administration’s unilateral emissions reduction commitment for Paris is unrealistic and doesn’t add up.
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2. The goals among nations are hugely unequal and will not change the rising trajectory of global emissions.
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While the United States, Europe, Japan, and a few others have offered large mission cuts, developing countries, particularly the large emerging economies, mostly have offered little beyond business as usual.
3. Reducing carbon dioxide emissions from energy is a technology challenge that cannot be simply negotiated or regulated away.
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4. It's not legally binding on any future administration.
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Because the Obama Administration has decided to defy Congress and implement its climate plan through executive action, nothing it commits to at Paris, including the promise of billions of dollars in financial assistance, will be legally binding on any future administration.
5. Countries don't check their national interests at the UN cloakroom.
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Like many other developing and emerging economies, China and India will continue to use fossil fuels because they have an overriding interest in boosting growth and lifting their people out of poverty.
6. U.S. GHG emissions might not be reduced in the global sense, but simply moved to other countries that have not implemented similar restrictions.
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Because U.S. businesses compete on a global scale, the electricity and related price increases resulting from EPA’s climate rules will severely disadvantage energy intensive, trade-exposed industries such as chemicals, manufacturing, steel, and pulp and paper.
7. The Obama Administration looks set to repeat the mistake of signing onto a lopsided deal and making promises future presidents and Congresses may be neither willing nor able to keep.
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