Now Is A Good Time To Read The Paris Climate Change Accord

Last week, the President announced that the United States would withdraw from the Paris Climate Accord negotiated in 2015.  The Paris Climate Accord was signed by 195 Parties and ratified by 146 countries plus the European Union.

However, the accord was not ratified by Congress and therefore was not subject to the Constitution's Treaty Clause (Art. I, § 2, cl. 2).

Under the accord's provisions, any party may withdraw from the Agreement under Article 28, following a three year period which falls on December 12, 2018.  The Paris Climate Accord provided that signatories provide a plan for carbon reduction by 2020, providing nationally determined contribution reductions to the Secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) programme.