Pelosi, Bipartisan Congressional Delegation Holds Press Conference in Beijing

[Congressman Sensenbrenner] Since Speaker Gingrich named me Chair of the Congressional Delegation to the Kyoto negotiations 11 1/2 years ago, I have followed this issue very closely. I am very discouraged at the conversations that we have had with all of our Chinese counterparts during this visit.

It's business as usual for China. The message that I received was that China was going to do it their way regardless of what the rest of the world negotiates in Copenhagen.

I point out that in 1997 the United States Senate unanimously passed a resolution that that would not ratify a climate change treaty that was not global in application. And while President Clinton signed the Kyoto Protocol, he never submitted it to the Senate for ratification because he knew it would be rejected there. I fear that we are on the same road and if Copenhagen is the son of Kyoto, the same thing is going to happen.

What the Chinese have told us is very interesting math. They have said that they are reducing their carbon emissions per unit of GDP by 20 percent over the five year period from 2005- 2010. Since the Chinese GDP is going up rather dramatically, that will still result in a significant increase in emissions in China -- while the Chinese are calling for the rest of the world to reduce their emissions below current levels. That is frankly unacceptable.

Also, last December, China tabled a proposal at the United Nations that called for each nation to put 1 percent of their GDP into the clean development fund. For the United States that's $140 billion dollars a year. That money will be borrowed and we will be borrowing it from China as well as other donor nations. And to borrow this amount of money, to turn around and give it back makes no sense whatsoever and I think the Congress will reject it overwhelmingly if it is submitted.

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