‘The United States\u2019 refusal to make internationally binding its ambitious pollution targets at the Cop21 climate talks in Paris isn\u2019t a sign of Barack Obama\u2019s lack of political will, but a reflection of the legal limits of his authorities and the political realities of what other nations will commit to doing.’<\/p>\n

Source: The White House’s COP 21 goals: less climate idealism, more political realism | Nigel Purvis | Opinion | The Guardian<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

‘The United States\u2019 refusal to make internationally binding its ambitious pollution targets at the Cop21 climate talks in Paris isn\u2019t a sign of Barack Obama\u2019s lack of political will, but a reflection of the legal limits of his authorities and the political realities of what other nations will commit to doing.’ Source: The White House’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6204"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6205,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6204\/revisions\/6205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}