mr. stern before appearing before our subcommittee today. we face an urgent task in paris, to bring the international community together, to chart a more sustainable future for our children and our grandchildren. nasa estimates that 2015 is 93% likely to be the warmest year on record. and the current record holder, last year, 2014. global warming is one of our greatest challenges. it requires a global effort. through a comprehensive international agreement. that's the only way we can tackle this problem. it's an environmental challenge, an energy challenge, a public health challenge and it's a national security challenge. it is a challenge to preserve our planet. and no one, no country, is imflun thi immune from that challenge or can meet that challenge alone. for years the global community has looked for answers to the problem. we have gone through various international agreements and protocols. sadly, the u.s. has failed to lead on this in the past. but today i'm more optimistic. i'm optimist

mr. stern, this is not an option. we need to lead on this and to say let's wait until china leads, i'm not waiting for china to lead on anything, frankly. i have much more faith in our systems here and our commitments here to the right thing. i want to thank you for your work on this. i've had the opportunity to talk with you several times. i think that our resolve that's going on here has brought others to the table. par paris offers an important opportunity to reach global agreements, and my own view is that the reason we've been able to make so many strides, even with the obstruction in congress -- congress is the only place that doesn't seem to want to do something, it seems, is because of the clean air act, the supreme court upholding the fact that, yes, carbon emissions are covered and the president of the united states. who has taken jabs every single day and still understands this question. so i want to talk to you about developing countries because it's always a problem. people say, oh

mr. stern for appearing before our subcommittee today. we face an urgent task in paris -- to bring the international community together, to chart a more sustainable future for our children and our grandchildren. nasa estimates that 2015 is 93% likely to be the warmest year on record and the current record holder last year, 2014. gloeshl warming is one of our greatest challenge that requires a global effort through a comprehensive international agreement. that's the only way we can truly tackle this problem. it's an environmental challenge, it's an energy challenge, it's a public health challenge, and it's a national security challenge. it is a challenge to preserve our planet. and no one, no country is immune from that challenge or can meet that challenge alone. for years, the global community has looked for answers to the problem. we have gone through various international agreements and protocols, sadly the u.s. has often failed to lead on this in the past. but today i'm more optimistic. i'm

mr. stern, for your testimony, leadership, for your hard work and creativity in pursuing such an important global goal. let me start in some ways where i think senator kaine was pursuing a conversation about some limitations of previous agreements and how this hoped-for agreement in paris will succeed. kyoto didn't have a framework for developing and developed countries. the new sustainable development goals with announced and adopted. sg 13 calls for all nations to combat climate change and its impacts. talk to me about how we'll incentivize other countries to take on sustainable development initiatives. the agreement with china and the trajectory we have going into paris with china is encouraging. how will we incentivize that and how that will make a difference in this round of climate negotiations. >>> thank you, senator. i think that there are a number of ways to think about this. one of the things that is -- one of the areas that we think are important in this regard has to do with the who

and of all of us, you are the leader, mr. stern, we thank you so much. >> mr. stern, we appreciate you being here today. i just want to point out it was the ranking member of the full committee who blocked the effort to hold the joint hearing, despite a long-standing precedent of joint hearings with epw and the senate foreign relations committee. i think it would have been productive and nice to have them all. and i have a list of times when we were able to do that. i did have one final question, and it has to do with references to a treaty. during senate deliberations on the u.n. framework on climate change in 1992, because we talked about previous activities. george herbert walker bush in his administration, officials testified that in the view of the administration, the degree of congressional involvement in u.s. adoption of any future protocols to the u.n. framework convention in climate change would depend on the nature of those agreements, and the administration also declared that any future agreement containing specific greenhouse gas emission targets lik

mr. todd stern. he is the united states special envoy for climate change and will be the lead negotiator fort paris climate change conference. he has a unique perspective as to what it is that this administration is negotiating for in any climate change deal, and what any final deal may look like. so, mr. stern, thank you very much for being with us today. while i support international dialog on global environmental problems, i do have serious concerns about the impact any deal reached in paris will have on the american economy. when our international priorities and on our environmental goals. i'm hearing from my constituents back home about their kearns. they're concerned that the pledges that the president is committing the united states to will strengthen foreign economies at the expense of american workers and will line the pockets of developing nations with millions of american taxpayer dollars. all this is being proposed at a time of scarce resources which are needed to strengthen our economy t

with w that, we turn to you, mr. stern. thank you. >> that works better. okay, thank you very much, mr. chairman. i am pleased to be here and appreciate the opportunity to testify before your subcommittee today i want to explain the approach we have taken to the international climate change negotiations over the last number of years and what we hope to accomplish in paris. the obama administration came into office convinced that we had to take bold action to tackle climate change but we also knew a fundamental reframing of our approach to international climate negotiations would be needed. we absorbed the hard lessons of kyoto and heeded concerns. we concluded the target should be set by countries themselves not imposed on them. that all countries should be expected to act, recognizing that developing countries face unique challenges and that we should expect strong transparency and accountability from all countries. that is the deal we've been fighting for. the president and secretary kerry have worked hard on building international support for this appro

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the time commissioner keane made his report that set up the public meeting with professor cook and mr. sternt mr. chair we discussed the matter itself going forward with the expenditure lobby requirement over the course of two hearings two of these hearings and in between a number of interested persons hearings and quite a bit of baej on behalf of members of the public of the organizations like finances of ethics and the civil grand jury i'll will concur with the chair it is where the way it is proposed it is almost put down like a throw away line finally an ad hoc committee and commissioner stephenson development the proposal and all of a sudden a light bulb went off over high head we don't get another two sentences about why c is on the ballot let's put in some full history, sir. >> fine with me i would say. >> when does this have to be filed. >> annually we can bring it back next week month are designate to the chair and approve the final language. >> i think that is a good suggestion. >> any other comments on the ethics report the other comment i have is on the future initiatives as you

mr. todd stern. he's the united states special envoy for climate change and will be the lead negotiator for the paris climate change conference. he has a unique perspective as to what it is that this strigs -- administration is negotiating for in any climate change deal and what any final deal may look like so thank you for being with us today. while i support international dialogue on global environmental problems i do have serious can't r concerns about the impact any deal reached in paris will have on the american economy, on our international priorities and environmental goals. i'm hearing from my constituents about their concerns, their concern the pledges the president is committing the united states to will strengthen foreign economies at the expense of american workers and will line the pockets of developing nations with millions of american taxpayer dollars. all that is being proposed at a time of scarce resources which are needed to strengthen our economy to fend off threats to our nation's

stern. now this isn't a big surprise. cowl's production company actually owns the "got talent" franchise. he owns a lot of things. and cowell judged the british version of the show. >> mrlity. >> yes. >> let's check in with jeff ranieri right now. we've got a little rain coming this weekend? little rain? >> yeah, a little something. really, the better chance of getting any kind of rainfall will bonn next week's forecast. you see on that scrolling seven-day forecast at the bottom of the screen, and i'll have more details here in just a minute. we'll take you outside of the sky camera network right now. sun is setting. temperatures are dropping. high clouds in place across the south bay. currently 75 degrees. east bay at 81. so still mild to warm outside. san francisco, though, dropping to 65 as fog is beginning to push in, and a beautiful night across the north bay and 77. tomorrow morning's forecast will have high clouds throughout the entire bay area that will be the biggest change for us, and also check out these temperatures. down to 55 in the south bay. need that light jacket to start. the north bay 48 degrees. we'll get you back to the local forecast in a minute.

the time commissioner keane made his report that set up the public meeting with professor cook and mr. stern. >> that's correct mr. chair we discussed the matter itself going forward with the expenditure lobby requirement over the course of two hearings two of these hearings and in between a number of interested persons hearings and quite a bit of baej on behalf of members of the public of the organizations like finances of ethics and the civil grand jury i'll will concur with the chair it is where the way it is proposed it is almost put down like a throw away line finally an ad hoc committee and commissioner stephenson development the proposal and all of a sudden a light bulb went off over high head we don't get another two sentences about why c is on the ballot let's put in some full history, sir. >> fine with me i would say. >> when does this have to be filed. >> annually we can bring it back next week month are designate to the chair and approve the final language. >> i think that is a good suggestion. >> any other comments on the ethics report the other comment i have is on the future i

the time commissioner keane made his report that set up the public meeting with professor cook and mr. stern. >> that's correct mr. chair we discussed the matter itself going forward with the expenditure lobby requirement over the course of two hearings two of these hearings and in between a number of interested persons hearings and quite a bit of baej on behalf of members of the public of the organizations like finances of ethics and the civil grand jury i'll will concur with the chair it is where the way it is proposed it is almost put down like a throw away line finally an ad hoc committee and commissioner stephenson development the proposal and all of a sudden a light bulb went off over high head we don't get another two sentences about why c is on the ballot let's put in some full history, sir. >> fine with me i would say. >> when does this have to be filed. >> annually we can bring it back next week month are designate to the chair and approve the final language. >> i think that is a good suggestion. >> any other comments on the ethics report the other comment i have is on the future i