By Hannah Chang
The President’s independent power to enter into internationally binding commitments related to climate change is limited, but as this paper shows, the President’s foreign affairs powers, together with authority derived from existing treaty obligations and federal statutes, provide legal authority for the President to enter executive agreements relating to measurement, reporting, and verification; aviation emissions; cooperative research and development in science and technology; and capacity-building.
Read the report International Executive Agreements on Climate Change in Columbia Law School's Scholarship Archive.