Wednesday, March 26, 2008


Climate Stewardship and Innovative Act of 2007
Democrats on the Issue


IPCC, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has released an assessment that holds human actions responsible for the up growing air pollution and warming of climate. This has led the democrats to feel the emergency of legislations on the issue. The republicans, however, except for senator McCain, the candidate of 2008 elections, have rejected the importance of the issue and the mandating condition.

Any provision for the issue requires the coping of the legal frameworks in US with the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. In introducing one of the issues in the Congress, that is the climate change and the necessary legal provisions for it, this paper would also look very briefly at the ideas of major democrats in senate, who have also been candidates for 2008 presidential election. The reason of not including the republicans is that they have generally ignored the issue, except for senator McCain.

The legal setting that is waiting to be passed by the House of Representatives is the most recent bill of Climate Stewardship and Innovative Act of 2007.

More than any other democrat candidate, Senator Joseph Biden has been active in promoting the issue of legislation in the area of climate change. The Clean Power Act of 2005, was a bill introduced by him in that year that never became a law.

Senator Hillary Clinton, the 2008 election major delegate, is a strong proponent of the legislation on the issue of climate change. She is also a member of the Senate Committee on Environment and Pubic Works. She has sponsored the Climate Stewardship and Innovation Act of 2007. This act would have cut the amount of green gases by 30% by 2050 having passed. The other act she is the sponsor of is the Global Warming Pollution Reduction Act.

Senator Chris Dodd was another democrat candidate who sponsored the Clean Power Act of 2005 along with Biden.

Senator John Edwards is the first to announce that for the bilateral purpose of reducing green house gases and the economic provision regarding fuel, the completely carbon neutral fuel should be utilized.

And the last but not the least, Senator Barak Obama, the other 2008 election delegate, has sponsored the Climate Stewardship and Innovative Act of 2007, along with Hillary Clinton. This is a bill that has not been passed yet, but alive.



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