1. Short title This Act may be cited as the International Climate Accountability Act . 2. Findings Congress finds the following: (1) In Paris, on December 12, 2015, parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) reached a landmark agreement to combat climate change and to accelerate and intensify the actions and investments needed for a sustainable low carbon future. (2) The Paris Agreement’s central aim is to strengthen— (A) international cooperation among parties on reducing global greenhouse gas emissions to mitigate the threat of climate change by keeping a global average temperature increase below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase even further to 1.5 degrees Celsius; and (B) ambition towards achieving global greenhouse gas emission reductions sufficient to reaching the goals of the Paris Agreement by requiring parties to make their own nationally determined contribution (NDC) of greenhouse gas emission reductions. (3) The Paris Agreement is the premier intergovernmental forum and mechanism at the disposal of the United States for protecting and advancing United States strategic and economic interests in a changing, low-carbon, global economy. (4) The enhanced transparency and reporting framework established under the Paris Agreement will provide an effective means of holding other parties accountable for their commitments. (5) The United States is playing a leading role in the development of procedures and guidelines to implement the transparency framework under the Paris Agreement. (6) Since May 31, 2017, more than 400 United States mayors have adopted the Paris Agreement goals for their cities and 24 United States governors have formed a bipartisan coalition to realize the Paris Agreement goals at the State level. (7) The Paris Agreement— (A) notes the importance of climate justice when mitigating and adapting to climate change