Trump signed an executive order that begins the process of withdrawing from the Paris Climate Agreement, which he also did during his first term.
Trump’s day-one actions on energy come as climate change-fueled fires ravage Southern California, following the globe’s hottest year on record.
When Trump announced the U.S. withdrawal from the climate agreement in 2017, the move reverberated around the globe. Nearly 200 nations had committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions under the pact when it was created in 2015, and they had set ambitious targets to keep global temperature rise well below 2°C, and ideally below 1.5°C.
With the US out of the tent, the rest of the world can get on with climate action without Trump’s corrosive influence.
One of President Trump’s first executive orders withdraws the U.S. from the Paris climate agreement. These graphics show why the pact is crucial to curbing the worst effects of global warming
The international community reacts to President Donald Trump’s reversing U.S. policy on climate change. CNN’s Bill Weir explains.
The Minister of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment, Dr Dion George, has called on the United States of America to take its commitments under international law seriously, and carefully consider the ramifications of its intended withdrawal from the Paris Agreement.
President Donald Trump has signed an executive order directing the United States to again withdraw the United States from the landmark Paris climate agreement.
He withdrew the U.S. from the Paris Climate Accords, putting the growth and success of American communities and families ahead of the extreme and pointless demands of climate radicals. Almost simultaneously,
WASHINGTON — The 2015 Paris climate agreement is not the boogeyman that punishes the United States that critics such as President Donald Trump claim. But it hasn’t quite kept the world from overheating either.
Various European leaders reacted to President Donald Trump's withdrawal from the Paris Agreement saying that they will stick to the landmark Paris climate agreement even though the United States has withdrawn from it.