reduce the amount of greenhouse gas emissions coming from our countries. those emissions limits are going to be voluntary. and that was pretty huge for the white house, because if they had been put into law, that would have meant that the president would have to take this to the senate. of course, senate controlled by republicans, and as you point out, republicans are not in favor of this agreement. senator jim inhofe, a very big climate change skeptic, somebody who once held a snowball up in the senate floor to say climate change wasn t happening was very critical saying this agreement doesn t mean much at all, poppy. as we look at live pictures of the white house cabinet room, gotten that two-minute warning about when the president will come out, look, you also have those that say this doesn t have teeth because it s voluntary, because there are no hard line commitments and laws to hold countries accountable, will there be change, right chris? well, that is what some folks are sa
disadvantage, even though we are a leader on global climate change. that s obvious. we ve done a great job over the last five or six years, i ll give the president credit for that. we still amount for a disproportionate amount of pollution. obviously, china is a great china exceeds that. but the president two things, the president refuted those who said this is going to cost jobs. we have to see how it plays out. jobs are also created in the green energy space, but i hear you, i hear you on that argument. here s the thing, all these countries are coming from different places. you know, you re sitting in china, if you re sitting in india, you re saying, this is our industrial revolution. we didn t put these limits on you, the united states of america, when you were going through the transformation economically and industrially that we are right now. what do you say to that, marc, where an agreement can be reached when you have nations at such different places? absolutely, and
announcement with china last year, we showed it was possible to bridge the old divides between developed and developing nations that had stymied global progress for so long. that accomplishment encouraged dozens and dozens of other nations to set their own ambitious climate targets. and that was the foundation for success in paris. because no nation, not even one as powerful as ours, can solve this challenge alone. and no country, no matter how small, can sit on the sidelines. all of us had to solve it together. now, no agreement is perfect, including this one. negotiations that involve nearly 200 nations are always challenging. even if all the initial targets set in paris are met, we ll only be part of the way there when it comes to reducing carbon from the atmosphere, so we cannot be complacent because of today s
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agreement. it s a very big, broad agreement. one of those binding pieces, poppy, is a transparency provision and that requires all the countries involved to report their greenhouse gas emissions chris, i m going to jump in. let s listen to president obama in the cabinet room. in my first inaugural address i committed this country to the tireless task of combatting climate change and protecting this planet for future generations. two weeks ago in paris, i said before the world that we needed a strong global agreement to accomplish this goal. an enduring agreement that reduces global carbon pollution and sets the world on a course to a low carbon future. a few hours ago we succeeded. we came together around the strong agreement the world needed. we met the moment. i want to commend president