Trump plans to withdraw US from Paris climate agreement for second time
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In 2021, Biden had rejoined 2015 treaty that seeks to curb climate crisis effects after Trump first pulled out in 2017. Donald Trump’s new administration confirmed on Monday on his first day in office that he will repeat his first-term move and pull the world’s second biggest emitter of planet-heating pollution out of the 2015 Paris agreement, the global treaty seeking to avoid the worst impacts of the climate crisis.
The confirmation was in a White House document entitled President Trump’s America First Priorities, in a package of measures under the headline “Make America affordable and energy dominant again”. When enacted, the US will join Iran, Libya and Yemen as the only countries outside the global agreement, which Joe Biden had rejoined in 2021 after Trump confirmed he would exit it in his first term in 2017.
Trump has also pledged to reverse Biden’s efforts to grow the US’s clean energy sector, which Trump describes as “the green new scam”, promising in his inauguration address to “drill baby drill” and remove all limits on America’s booming fossil fuel industry.
The fossil fuel industry is expected to expand further during Trump’s second presidency despite already producing record amounts of oil, and the US becoming the world’s biggest producer of gas, and while under Biden a record 758 oil and gas drilling licenses were issued in 2023.
