Whereas the Paris Agreement, adopted by the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) 5 years ago on December 12, 2015, represents the first comprehensive agreement among all countries to keep global warming below 2 degrees Celsius compared with the preindustrial era; Whereas the Paris Agreement urges efforts to limit global warming to one and a half degrees Celsius; Whereas there are 197 parties, including the United States, to the UNFCCC, the principal framework to stabilize greenhouse gas concentrations at a level that would prevent dangerous, human-induced interference with the climate system; Whereas 194 parties have signed the Paris Agreement, and 189 parties have adopted the Paris Agreement; Whereas, on June 1, 2017, President Donald J. Trump announced his intention to withdraw the United States from the Paris Agreement; Whereas, on May 2, 2019, the House of Representatives passed in a bipartisan vote H.R. 9, the Climate Action Now Act, that would have kept the United States in the Paris Agreement; Whereas, on November 4, 2019, the Trump administration gave the United Nations formal notice of its intent to withdraw the United States from the Paris Agreement, initiating the year-long withdrawal process; Whereas, on November 4, 2020, the United States became the first and only signatory of the Paris Agreement to withdraw; Whereas, on November 4, 2020, President-elect Joseph R. Biden, Jr., stated that the United States would rejoin the Paris Agreement on January 20, 2021, the first day the new administration will take office; Whereas the human influence on the climate system is unequivocal and evident from the increasing greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere, positive radiative forcing, observed warming, and understanding of the climate system