U.S climate bill:International climate agreement- any links?

As Americans witness the worst environmental catastrophe in their history, the deadliest coal mining disaster in 40 years, and sweat through the hottest first six months of any year on record, there’s never been a more urgent time to move forward with a clean energy and climate policy.
There’s no doubt that big oil, big coal, their army of lobbyists and their partners in Congress are cheering the obstruction that blocked Senate action on clean energy and climate legislation last week. Their cheers may as well be for China taking the lead in clean energy jobs, the Middle East getting more money for imported oil, and America getting more pollution and fewer jobs.
Despite this major setback, it remains possible that the U.S. Senate will vote on domestic clean energy and climate legislation this year. In WWF’s view, it is clear that a lack of U.S. legislation does not prevent all countries working under the UN Climate process (UNFCCC) from making progress towards a fair, ambitious and legally-binding agreement to tackle climate change.
The chances of agreeing a comprehensive deal on climate change under the UNFCCC do not depend on one country. All countries in the UNFCCC process should still expect the U.S. to meet its commitments to reduce emissions and provide finance, and should not, under any circumstances, delay progress towards negotiating a fair, ambitious, and binding treaty, or in implementing ambitious actions.

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(c) Kevin Dooley/Flickr Creative Commons