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What binding might look like. there is no binding agreement as of yet and that word can have a lot of different complicated meanings in the context of international agreements. but there's concern that anything truly binding would have to be ratified by a united states senate that clearly will never in at least the near future provide the two-thirds margin necessary to ratify it. >> even when you sign a treaty like i think nixon did, the antiballistic missile treaty, george w. bush reneged on it. he got out of it. so any treaty can be withdrawn from. and so what we need is durable commitments ...

Hash out details and figure out just how to limit global warming, and not rise above 2 degrees celsius. barack obama says he's optimistic a binding agreement can be reached. >> if you add up all the pledges and they were all met right now, we would be at a estimated 2 .7 centigrade increase in temperature. that's too high. we wanted to get two centigrade or even lower than that. but if we have these periodic reviews built in, what i believe will happen is that by sending that signal to researchers and scientists and investors and entrepreneurs and venture funds, we'll actually start hitting th...

Try to stop him from doing that, that right now tonight is very much a live question. a live question that we will now put to nbc news senior white house correspondent chris jansing, who joins us live from the middle of the night now in paris. chris, thank you so much for staying up to be with us. >> love it. love being here. >> is there a feeling among the u.s. delegation, among people covering this and who know this subject tightly, is there a feeling that there is going to be something to sign, that there is going to be a binding agreement, that the u.s. is going to be part of something qui...

Put to nbc news senior white house correspondent chris jansing, who joins us live from the middle of the night now in paris. chris, thank you so much for staying up to be with us. >> love it. love being here. >> is there a feeling among the u.s. delegation, among people covering this and who know this subject matter tightly, is there a feeling that there is going to be something to sign, that there is going to be a binding agreement, that the u.s. is going to be part of something quite different than what we have done in the past? >> i think there's a sense of optimism. there's also a sense of...

>> reporter: president obama also saying in fact that the u.s. knew it is responsible for creating this problem. >> trying to get all of these countries on the same page in the binding agreement, obviously very tough. how much can this really stick? how much can it be where once the conference is over, everybody goes back home? how likely is it that what they talked about can really be carried out? >> reporter: well, ban ki-moon the secretary-general of the u.n. says no one is expecting a perfect agreement here. it is a good time to think about consensus and compromise. it is not a perfect agr...