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Climate change commitments to be added to NAFTA not TPP
Howard Richman, 1/25/2016

An article from IBTimes quotes the top U.S. trade official saying that the Paris climate commitments would not be added to TPP, because doing so could kill TPP:

U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman said Friday an embattled 12-nation trade deal was not an appropriate vehicle for fighting climate change.

But it then quotes the top Canadian trade official saying that, instead, strong North American commitments on climate would be added to NAFTA: 

Canadian Minister of International Trade Chrystia Freeland said U.S. and Canadian officials “are building very strongly right now on our NAFTA partnership to put forward some very strong North American positions on climate change, on the environment. And we’ll have some things to say about that before too long.”