International Climate Agreements

International climate agreements are treaties and pacts in which countries promise to act on climate change together. They set goals, reporting duties, and ways to share costs and technology. The president negotiates them, the Senate has a role in treaties, and federal agencies carry out the commitments.

People usually ask how these agreements are made and what holds countries to them. They want to know how the United States joins, leaves, or rejoins an agreement and what that means for funding and cooperation. They also ask how voluntary targets differ from binding ones and how progress is measured.