The real message behind Trump's withdrawal of US from the Paris climate agreement
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True to his word, Donald Trump has ordered the US out of the Paris Agreement on climate change. Are efforts to combat climate change doomed?. Well, you can argue whether it's actually going to happen. Mr Trump promised to pull out last time he was president.
But his term in office ended before all the red tape binding the US to the UN Paris pact was unravelled. This time his team will have more experience. Will it actually make much difference? The UN climate process rumbled slowly on for four years without any US recognition or involvement during the last Trump reign.
Follow updates: Trump 2.0 will be 'vengeful', UK warned. Some momentum was lost, but the process didn't collapse and no other nation followed suit. After the fossil-fuelled interregnum, America came back arguably greener than before. This time, it's not so clear - already Argentina, under Trump-supporting Javier Milei, has said it might also quit the agreement.
Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player. Read more:Trump to wrench US out of landmark Paris agreement - againList of executive orders Trump signed on day one as new president. Don't forget though, that a global transition away from fossil fuels is underway despite all this.
Ignore the "Drill baby, drill!" and "energy emergency" rhetoric of the inauguration speech. A fact rarely acknowledged, certainly by the MAGA movement, is that the US became the world's largest oil and gas producer under Joe Biden - much of it liquified natural gas for export.
