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Two-thirds the United States has polled that it should take on a legally binding international agreement to "limit the impact of climate change", according to a poll released Monday by CBS News and The New York Times.

The survey was conducted between the 18^th and 22^nd of this month.

The results have been released on the day that 150 nations' leaders started the Paris climate talks, in order to enter into a legally binding agreement that can bring down greenhouse gases and maintain the global average temperatures at a rate below 2 degrees Celsius.

Even as 66 percent of those polled agree to the binding agreement at the summit, most Republicans do not support it, according to the Times.

While 75 percent Americans polled seem concerned that the global warming is "seriously affecting the environment" nine out of 10 Democrats and 58 percent of Republicans put their ayes in too.

A 63 percent of Americans, including a number of Republicans also agreed for measures to put limits on carbon emissions from U.S. power plants. However, 31 percent opposed them.

There seemed to be many mixed reviews on U.S. limits for drilling on oil and gas, logging and mining on public lands. There were 49 percent who supported while 45 percent did not.

"Public support for international and domestic measures to address climate change may provide a lift for American negotiators attending the major United Nations climate change conference that began in Paris on Monday," the Times wrote. "But the stark partisan divide on climate policy will still make it difficult for President Obama and his successors to put in place the energy and climate policies that will be needed to support a robust international agreement, the goal of the Paris talks."