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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: Land Shark who wrote (908009)12/12/2015 1:53:25 PM
From: Wharf Rat  Read Replies (1) of 1572120
 
Obama is a pretty good hurdler.

Another official lists technical errors to be corrected, blaming sleep deprivation. The controversial Article 4.4 “shall” is replaced by “should”. Phew, that’s that sorted.

Why all this fuss over one word? Well, “shall” is binding under international law. “Should” is not.

The US has maintained all along that it will not accept legally binding mitigation targets. That is because it would have to get Congress to ratify such a deal. Congress is dominated by Republicans hostile to the whole climate agenda.

Now, the US is arguing “shall” was never supposed to be in there – it’s a typo. That appears to be backed up by Thursday’s draft, which only used “should”.


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