Climate change policy of the George W. Bush administration directed US efforts to urge governors and dozens of members of the House of Representatives to block California's first-in-the-nation limits on greenhouse gases from cars and trucks, according to e-mails obtained by Congress. Climate change policy of the George W. Bush administration This article is about the climate change policy of the United States under the George W. Bush administration. In March 2001, the Bush Administration announced that it would not implement the Kyoto Protocol, an international treaty signed in 1997 in Kyoto, Japan that would require nations to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions, claiming that ratifying the treaty would
2016 United Nations Climate Change Conference aim of keeping climate change under an increase of 2 °C between the present day and 2100. The conference opened with a preparatory document on a future COP21 agreement in Paris and by adopting a 37-page text. The 195 countries participating in the conference adopted the first worldwide climate agreement, a binding treaty that aims to limit climate change to a temperate increase of under 2 °C. The convention's attendees can be sorted into one of three categories: parties, observers, or members of the press/media. There are three distinct groups that a nation can be placed in if they are