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Denton Record-Chronicle
Sunday, November 29, 2015
Obama tries to negotiate historic climate pact
speaking for us,” according to a
McConnell opinion column
posted on the Washington
Post’s website. He said it would
be “irresponsible for an outgoing
president to purport to sign the
American people up” for a new
climate agreement.
About 150 heads of state are
set to join Obama for talks on
Monday and Tuesday as the deal
nears the finish line. The goal is
to secure worldwide cuts to
emissions of heat-trapping gas-
es to limit the rise of global tem-
peratures to about another 2 de-
grees from now.
With little room for error,
leaders have tried to avoid the
pitfalls that undercut global cli-
mate negotiations in the past —
specifically, those in Kyoto, Ja-
pan, in the early 1990s and in
Denmark during Obama’s first
term.
has exceeded his authority and is
misusing the decades-old Clean
Air Act. If their lawsuit succeeds,
Obama would be hard-pressed
to deliver the 26 percent to 28
percent cut in overall U.S. emis-
sions by 2030 that he has prom-
ised as America’s contribution.
Opponents also are trying to
gut the power plant rules
through a rarely used legislative
maneuver that already has
passed the Senate. A House vote
is expected while international
negotiators are in Paris.
Senate Republicans are
working to block Obama’s re-
quest for the first installment of
a $3 billion pledge to a U.N.
fund to help countries adapt to
climate change, a priority for
poorer countries. What’s more,
the Republicans running for
president are unanimous in
their opposition to Obama’s
power plant rules; many say that
if elected, they immediately
would rip up the rules.
“America is extremely divid-
ed, and there doesn’t seem to be
any prospect that’s going to
change at least in the next year
or two,” Gov. Jerry Brown, D-
Calif., who is attending the talks,
said in an interview. ‘America’s
leadership is not as great as it
should be given the recalcitrance
and the continuing obstruction-
ism of the opposition party.”
By Josh Lederman
and Seth Borenstein
Associated Press
WASHINGTON
Presi-
dent Barack Obama is trying to
negotiate a legacy-making cli-
mate change pact this coming
week in Paris with one hand tied
behind his back. Congress can’t
even agree whether global
warming is real.
Scientists point to the global
agreement, years in the making,
as the last, best hope for averting
the worst effects of global warm-
ing. Obama has spent months
prodding other countries to
make ambitious carbon-cutting
pledges to the agreement, which
he hopes will become the frame-
work for countries to tackle the
climate issue long beyond the
end of his presidency in early
2017.
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Susan Walsh/AP
President Barack Obama speaks Wednesday in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in
Washington.
But Republicans have tried to
undermine the president by
sowing uncertainty about
whether the U.S. will make good
on its promises. Senate Majority
Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.,
and other GOP leaders have
warned other countries not to
trust any deal Obama may
strike; other GOP allies are
working to nullify Obama’s
emissions-cutting steps at home.
“Congress and more than
half of the states have already
made clear that he won’t be
The deal in Kyoto — which
the U.S. never ratified — spared
developing countries such as
China and India from mandato-
ry emissions cuts, causing re-
sentment in the U.S. and other
industrialized countries. The
Paris agreement would be the
first to involve all countries.
In Copenhagen in 2009,
leaders managed only to pro-
duce abroad-strokes agreement
that fell far short of intended
goals.
The concept behind a Paris
pact is that the 170 or so nations
already have filed their plans.
They would then promise to ful-
fill their commitments in a sep-
arate arrangement to avoid the
need for ratification by the Re-
publican-run Senate. That dual-
level agreement could be con-
sidered part of a 1992 treaty al-
ready approved by the Senate,
said Nigel Purvis, an environ-
mental negotiator in the Clinton
and George W. Bush adminis-
trations.
But it’s not just about wheth-
er or not to ratify.
In the United States, the talks
are entangled in the debate about
whether humans really are con-
tributing to climate change, and
what, if anything, policymakers
should do about it. Almost all Re-
publicans, along with some
Democrats, oppose the steps
Obama has taken to curb green-
house gas emissions, arguing
they will hurt the economy, shut-
ter coal plants and eliminate jobs
in power-producing states.
Half the states are suing the
administration to try to block
Obama’s unprecedented regula-
tions to cut power plant emis-
sions by roughly one-third by
2030. These states say Obama
Prominent rights activist
killed in attack in Turkey
BRIEFLY
U.S. AND THE WORLD
Dakar, Senegal
Mortar attack on UN
base kills 3, injures 20
A mortar attack on a United
Nations base in northern Mali’s
Kidal early Saturday killed at least
three people, including two U.N.
peacekeepers and a contractor,
said the mission spokesman.
The attack also injured 20
people, of which four are in seri-
ous condition, said Olivier Sal-
gado, spokesman for the U.N.
mission in Mali known as MI-
NUSMA.
No one claimed responsibili-
ty for the attack in the country’s
restless north but Islamic ex-
tremists are suspected.
— The Associated Press
from an area some 100 yards
away from where Elci was
speaking. A policeman died in
that attack. Ala said Elci died
soon after in a clash between the
police and assailants.
Prime Minister Ahmet Da-
vutoglu spoke of two possible
scenarios.
“One possibility is that after
this terror attack, the assailants
assassinated Mr. Elci,” Davuto-
glu said. “A second possibility is
that ... Elci got caught in the
crossfire.”
Davutoglu vowed to find the
culprits through a “transparent”
investigation and promised no
cover-up.
A government official said
four inspectors have been as-
signed to investigate the case,
adding that the government was
“determined to shed light” on
the attack.
He said authorities believe
that Elci was caught in the cross-
fire, but were not ruling out “the
possibility that a third party di-
rectly targeted him.” The official
cannot be named because he
was not authorized to speak
publicly on the issue.
Elci had said through his
Twitter account that he had re-
ceived death threats because of
his televised comments in which
he defended the rebels.
Authorities declared a cur-
few in the Sur neighborhood
where the attack occurred — a
scene of frequent clashes be-
tween security forces and Kurd-
ish youths.
By Suzan Fraser
Associated Press
ANKARA, Turkey
prominent lawyer and human
rights defender, who faced a
criminal charge for supporting
Kurdish rebels, was killed Satur-
day in an attack in southeast
Turkey in which a police officer
also died, officials said.
Tahir Elci was shot while he
and other lawyers were making
a press statement. Two police-
men and a journalist were also
injured.
It wasn’t immediately clear
who was behind the attack and
there were conflicting reports
about what led to it.
Interior Minister Efkan Ala
and other officials said the as-
sault was against police officers,
and that Elci died in an ensuing
clash. However, the Diyarbakir
Bar Association said the lawyer,
who was Kurdish, was the target
of the attack.
Elci, 49, was the head of the
bar association in the mainly
Kurdish city and a human rights
activist.
He was briefly detained and
questioned last month for say-
ing during a live news program
that the Kurdistan Workers’
Party, or PKK, is not a terrorist
organization. Soon after, he was
charged with making terrorist
propaganda and was facing
more than seven years in prison.
Turkey and its allies consider
the PKK to be a terrorist organi-
zation, and the government has
stepped up attacks against it in
recent months. The PKK has
been fighting for autonomy in
southeastern Turkey since 1984.
Ala said the attack began
with two people firing at police
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