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ContractMultilateral Agreement • December 9th, 2020
Multilateral agreements generally pertain to the actions of national governments. The Paris Agree- ment, for instance, sets collective goals and spells out the obligations of the national governments that join it – the most important being the development and implementation of their “nationally de- termined contributions” (NDCs). However, unlike most other multilateral agreements, the influence of the Paris Agreement extends well beyond the purview of national governments. Across societies, a wide range of other actors – state and local authorities, companies, workers, faith organizations, educational and cultural institutions, and others – are internalizing the goals of the Paris Agreement and orienting their actions accordingly. This proliferation of bottom-up, Paris-aligned action helps achieve, and strengthen, countries’ NDCs. In the United States, it has maintained momentum to- ward the Paris goals even as the Trump administration was withdrawing from the agreement. Over time, thi
