This chapter seeks to investigate the very foundation of domestic climate policies, with particular regard to the ‘Big Actor’ on the international scene, the United States, in order to understand how to better enforce climate obligations. It is argued that resistance to climate policy enforcement is grounded in the historical propensity of the country to support the right to property and that only the adequate implementation of environmental human rights can counterbalance this tendency, preferably via goal-based and pledge-based arrangements.