Fact Check: Is the Paris Climate Agreement Unconstitutional?

Fact Check: Is the Paris Climate Agreement Unconstitutional?

President Joe Biden is upholding a campaign promise to make the climate a priority in his first days in office by signing Wednesday an executive order allowing the U.S. to rejoin the Paris Agreement to combat global warming.The order reverses President Donald Trump's decision that went into effect last year to pull the U.S. out of the agreement.The ClaimRepresentative Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) reacted to Biden's decision to rejoin the Paris Agreement in a Thursday tweet that reads in part: "America shouldn't spend a penny on this unconstitutional treaty unless it is ratified by the U.S. Senate."The FactsThe Paris Agreement came into existence after 196 countries adopted it at the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference, also known as COP 21, in Paris.The purpose of the agreement is to combat climate change by reducing global greenhouse gas emissions and to limit the global temperature to 2 degrees Celsius or below.The agreement officially became effective in 2016 under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).Under international law, legally binding agreements between multiple countries become treaties.The UN states that the Paris Agreement "is a hybrid of legally binding and nonbinding provisions."Boebert's team issued a statement about her claim to Newsweek in