Its Official: The Paris Agreement Goes Into Effect Today

Today, November 4, 2016, The Paris Agreement will enter into force. The Eiffel Tower and Arc de Triomphe will reportedly be floodlit green to celebrate this landmark occasion.

The New York Times article entitled, "The Paris Agreement on Climate Change is Official. Now What?" hits the nail on the head. Now that The Paris Agreement has gone into effect as of today, the question on everyone's mind is "what is next?"

As the International Energy Agency ("IEA") reports, "[t]he question now turns to implementing the terms of the agreement, helping nations meet their goals and, more critically, ratchet them further." The IEA will release its World Energy Outlook 2016 later this month, which is said to highlight pathways to reach these targets on an individual country by country basis.