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U.N. Secretary urges Senate to move ahead with climate change bill
Despite pressure from United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday to take action on climate change immediately, some in the Senate said a bill would probably not be passed this year, according to an article from the Associated Press.
Ban Ki-moon met with members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to discuss negotiations on how to slow global warming before the meeting of 192 nations in Copenhagen scheduled for next month.
The United Nations Climate Change Conference is scheduled to take place Dec.7 through Dec. 18.
While the House narrowly passed a version of the global warming bill in June, several senators are adamant that a bill won’t make the Senate floor by the end of this year.
But the author of the Senate bill that would set the first-ever U.S. limits on greenhouse gases, Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., said he hoped to have an outline of where the Senate was headed before the Copenhagen meeting.
“We are engaged in the process that will hopefully put us in a position to go to Copenhagen with a sort of framework, or outline, on where the Senate will be heading in its legislation,” said Kerry in an article on the conference Web site.
Last week Kerry’s bill was voted out of a Senate panel, in the midst of a Republican boycott, however five other committees will also have a say in the legislation, according to the Associated Press article.
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