Earth Equity News

"Obama's Legacy at Stake in Climate Negotiations." By Coral Davenport, The New York Times, 11/28/15. "All year, Mr. Obama’s negotiators have worked behind the scenes to fashion a Paris deal...Crucial to Mr. Obama’s leverage has been the release of his domestic climate change regulations, which he then pushed other countries to emulate. So far, at least 170 countries have put forth emission reduction plans. But even as Mr. Obama presses for a deal in Paris, it faces steep obstacles, not least the legal and legislative assault on his own regulations at home...if his domestic regulations and a Paris accord withstand efforts to gut them, “climate change will become the heart and soul of his presidency.”’