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Framework Convention on ClimateChange (UNFCCC). climate policy. remains a party to the UNFCCC , helped broker the ParisAgreement, and is till a party to that agreement today. should not enter into any climateagreement that fails to limit emissions from developing countries. 1998 U.S.
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