mr. schatz: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from hawaii. mr. schatz: thank you, mr. president. to continue, i'd like to offer seven very quick observations about the paris climate talks and the first is this, it's already a success. if you had told any knowledgeable observer that they were going to get 185 countries representing 97% of countries, 98% of emissions and 150 heads of state in the same place at the same time, the most in history, if you had said that two years ago, that would have sounded wildly optimistic. we really are making progress. the second thing is that this is not going to require senate approval. there have been more than 18,000 such agreements that our presidents in the past have entered into over time, not requiring senate approval. the third thing, and this is important but it shouldn't be overstated, it's not enough. if we want to hit the two-degree celsius target, this only gets us about 40% there. but 40% there is 40% there. we were at zero three weeks ago. so getting 40% there i think is really important. i think the other thing that we'