{"id":5517,"date":"2018-01-30T15:59:37","date_gmt":"2018-01-30T20:59:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/climatechange\/?p=5517"},"modified":"2023-03-13T11:34:54","modified_gmt":"2023-03-13T16:34:54","slug":"what-happened-to-byrd-hagel-its-curious-absence-from-evaluations-of-the-paris-agreement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/climatechange\/2018\/01\/30\/what-happened-to-byrd-hagel-its-curious-absence-from-evaluations-of-the-paris-agreement\/","title":{"rendered":"What Happened to Byrd-Hagel? 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It influenced the approaches of the Clinton, Bush, and Obama Administrations to the Kyoto Protocol and international climate policy. Curiously, however, it did not appear to play a role in the evaluation, including by the Trump Administration and the Senate, of whether the United States should continue to participate in the Paris Agreement.<\/p>\n<p><em>Susan Biniaz, formerly a long time U.S. Department of State lawyer, is on the adjunct faculty of Columbia Law School and is a David Sive Visiting Scholar at the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law. In her latest paper, she explores the role that the &#8220;Byrd-Hagel Resolution&#8221; played in the climate agreements.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Read her paper <a href=\"https:\/\/columbiaclimatelaw.com\/files\/2018\/01\/Biniaz-2018-1-Byrd-Hagel-article-Working-Paper.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Susan Biniaz In the midst of the negotiations leading to the Kyoto Protocol in 1997, the U.S. Senate adopted the \u201cByrd-Hagel Resolution,\u201d co-sponsored by Senators Robert Byrd of West Virginia and Chuck Hagel of Nebraska.\u00a0Passed by a vote of 95-0, it reflected the Senate\u2019s view that the international climate change agreement then being negotiated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1962,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5671,9324],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5517","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-international","7":"category-unfccc","8":"czr-hentry"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>What Happened to Byrd-Hagel? 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