it includes sustainable development goals and targets set by the un general assembly in the paper highlights how the paris agreement makes national climate policies become international law and suggests an implementation of paris principles on nonstate actors the exposition further suggests that a legal perspective may enrich the understanding of todays climate governance the replacement of the kyoto protocol topdown approach for developed states only with a bottomup pledgeandreview system accommodating all states has indeed changed the rules of the game for global climate law and policy