Posted on 03/08/2016 6:47:37 AM PST by george76
The first chunk of a $3bn commitment made at the Paris climate talks ‘shows the US stands squarely behind climate commitments’, the State Department said.
The Obama administration has made a first installment on its $3bn pledge to help poor countries fight climate change – defying Republican opposition to the resident’s environmental plan.
The $500m payment to the Green Climate Fund was seen as critical to shoring up international confidence in Barack Obama’s ability to deliver on the pledges made at the United Nations’ climate change conference in Paris in late 2015.
Obama is expected to announce a number of joint climate initiatives when Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau visits Washington this week...
The White House is also working with United Nations officials to encourage countries to formally approve the Paris climate agreement ahead of a signing ceremony on 22 April.
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Administration officials said the initial $500m payment to the Green Climate Fund demonstrated that Obama would follow through on the promises of last December’s Paris climate agreement – despite February’s setback at the supreme court and threats by Republican presidential candidates to dismantle Obama’s agenda.
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The supreme court last month agreed to block the centerpiece of Obama’s climate plan – new rules cutting emissions from power plants – until lower courts rule on legal challenges from 29 states and dozens of industry groups. The ruling created immediate uncertainty about the fate of the power plant rules and the Paris agreement.
Obama’s climate plan is also under political attack from Republican presidential contenders who say they will scrap the rules and dismantle the Environmental Protection Agency if they take the White House next November.
Republicans in Congress have also threatened to scrap the power plant rules and block any US contributions to the Green Climate Fund,
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So glad “CPC Hero Conservative” Paul Ryan wrote the taxpayers check to fund this. /s
Upstate NY, Henrietta: A solar panel maker just went belly up here. 53 jobs down the drain. Will check their subsidy and/or connections.
It’s always easy to spend other people’s money.
I guess the upside is that they won’t have that money to buy votes with.
The ultra-Marxist obama demonstrates yet again that he really love to p*ss away your hard-earned tax dollars.
If you can’t afford that new car, the additoon to the house, or dental work for Junior, you’ll know why.
Ryan and O’Connell need to be replaced. They give Obama whatever he wants. Unfortunately, the GOP will allow them to return to their positions and continue pushing the liberal agenda.
People need to really think about who they pull the lever for. If we don’t get rid of the garbage it will stink up the house.
Everyone here can thank Cruz and Rubio and the rest for FUNDING this BS!!!
There, fixed it.
Was this expenditure directly authorized by Congress?
If not a specifically authorized item, but taken out of a more or less general slush fund at the President’s discretion, what are the details of said discretionary funding?
And all this time I thought we were broke.
Happy days are here again!
I am in a very bad mood today, the stink is already here and we are out of disinfectant.
I have no problem with Ryan/McConnell, the Rubber stamp duo, they can atone for their failures by rubber stamping what ever President Trump or President Cruz sends them the next 8 years.
“I’m guess the upside is that they won’t have that money to buy votes with.”
What do you think that this is a cover for?
Spending $500 million on a preblem that doesn't exist,
but is unwilling to spend on 'infrastructure' is a measurement of social decline .
Defying republicans’ opposition?
speaker Ryan is actively supporting this travesty by championing the Obama spending plans in passing the Omnibus bill.
How did a check for half a billion dollars for this come out of Republican House?
Right, but those are people that are already in their camp. But good point.
Where did he get the money? What part of the budget went for this boondoggle, this extra-legal tax?
Republican Senator Paul Ryan funds Obama’s global warming money laundering scheme designed to redistribute American taxpayers money to socialists New World Order Fascist’s.
All hail The New World Order, soon real money will be gone and you’ll pay via your cell phone.
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