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30
UNFCCC Article 2, Objective. 1992.
31
For more information on the international negotiations on climate change, see CRS Report
R40001, A U.S.-Centric Chronology of the International Climate Change Negotiations, by
Jane A. Leggett.
32
The Senate had stated this clearly, in July 2007 prior to the Kyoto negotiations, in S.Res. 98,
passed on a vote of 95- 0.
33
http://www.state.gov/e/oes/climate/mem/index.htm.
34
For more information on the Montreal Protocol, see United Nations Environment Programme,
Ozone Secretariat. The Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer.
35
White House. United States and China Agree to Work Together on Phase Down of HFCs.
Press release. June 8, 2013.
36
The State Department's calculation is available at http://www.state.gov/e/oes/
climate/faststart/index.htm.
37
EOP. op.cit., p. 20.
38
CRS Report RL32240, The Federal Rulemaking Process: An Overview, coordinated by Maeve
P. Carey.
39
InteragencyWorking Group on Social Cost of Carbon. Technical Support Document: Technical
Update of the Social Cost of Carbon for Regulatory Impact Analysis Under Executive
Order 12866. Washington DC: U.S. Government, May 2013. http://www.
whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/omb/inforeg/social_cost_of_carbon_for_ria_2013_update
.pdf.
40
CRS Report R41974, Cost-Benefit and Other Analysis Requirements in the Rulemaking
Process, by Maeve P. Carey.
41
Center for Biological Diversity v. National Highway Traffic Safety Admin., 508 F.3d 508, 519
(9th Cir. 2007).
