Is the Paris Climate Agreement legally binding? Experts explain
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2015 Paris Agreement as a “legally binding international treaty on climate change.” the treaty itself has few legal teeth. It does not impose penalties, such as fees or embargos, for parties that violate its terms, there is no international court or governing body ready to enforce compliance The enf
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- 2015 Paris Agreement as a “legally binding international treaty on climate change.”
- the treaty itself has few legal teeth. It does not impose penalties, such as fees or embargos, for parties that violate its terms,
- there is no international court or governing body ready to enforce compliance
- The enforceability of agreements rests on a common understanding of what a legal bond means in the global community.
- “Ultimately, legal bindingness reflects a state of mind…of officials who apply and interpret the law (judges, executive branch officials, and so forth), but also to some degree of the larger community that the law purports to govern
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