Global Action against Climate Change: Time to Join Forces

... development, with the initial report to be presented in 2022, as well as present plans for adjusting to climate change. This approach opens a way to have the document ratified by the United States through a direct presidential signature bypassing Senate. The Paris Agreement also creates a new international instrument to replace the clean development mechanism and joint projects of the Kyoto Protocol era. The new sustainable development arrangement allows countries to finance projects on reducing emissions in other countries without the differentiation between industrialized and developing members. However, in contrast to the Kyoto ...