The Paris Climate Accords are even more useless than you thought

Published November 15, 2018 7:54pm ET



Climate Transparency, an environmental group which studies G20 nations’ commitment and progress on combating climate change, released a report documenting what many have already known for years: The Paris climate agreement has done absolutely nothing to lower greenhouse gas emissions.

The primary center-right critiques of the Paris Agreement were first and foremost the questionable constitutionality of President Barack Obama entering the agreement without the Senate’s consent. Also at issue were the deeply unfair standards the U.S. was held to in relation to other nations and the agreement’s overall ability to actually fight climate change.

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