Posts Tagged ‘Global Deal’
Why enviros can’t sleep at night
Guess what keeps environmentalists up at night? And worries me, too? If President Obama and the Democrats are struggling to find 60 votes in the Senate to pass domestic climate-change legislation, how on earth will they get the 67 votes needed to ratify a global treaty to deal with the problem, even assuming –and this is a big assumption — that the UNFCCC (that’s the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, for the uninitiated) can get a global deal done this winter in Copenha