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US President Donald Trump has said he will pull the US out of the historic Paris climate accord, damaging efforts to slow global warming following the hottest year on record globally.
The move was announced on Monday after Trump was sworn in and replaced Joe Biden as US president.
“President Trump will pull out of the Paris climate accord,” the White House said less than half an hour after the new president took office, outlining the new administration’s priorities.
The U.S. withdrawal from the 2015 accord, signed by nearly 200 countries, means the world’s biggest historic polluter will once again abandon its commitment to curb greenhouse gas emissions.
Rachel Cletus, policy director and policy director of the Union of Concerned Scientists, said the U.S. withdrawal is “concerning” and “clearly at odds with the scientific facts.”
During his inauguration, Trump said he wanted to make the most of America’s oil and gas reserves.
In the year In 2017, the US was the only country to withdraw from the Paris Agreement during the first Trump administration. But she joined in 2021 under Biden. Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro threatened to withdraw from the deal, but did not follow through.
This is a developing story.
