Hillary Touts Widely Criticized 2009 Climate Deal as ‘Excellent Adventure’ With Obama

‘They tried to prevent us from getting in ... the president got in, I ducked in, and the president goes, “we’ve been looking for you!”‘

Widely Criticized 2009 Climate Deal Touted as Hillary Accomplishment (Washington Free Beacon)

In her Monday evening interview with Hillary Clinton, ABC anchor Diane Sawyer suggested that a widely panned deal on carbon emissions reached at the 2009 U.N. climate conference in Copenhagen is one of Clinton’s achievements as Secretary of State.

“They got a deal with the Chinese, but even [Clinton] says it was far from perfect,” Sawyer said after recounting a her and President Barack Obama’s efforts to woo reluctant representatives of Beijing.

“Far from perfect” may understate how poor the eventual agreement was for U.S. policymakers who hoped for a binding cap on global carbon emissions.

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