Trump Issues an Executive Order Ordering the United States to Exit the Paris Climate Accord
In a blow to global efforts to tackle global warming, President Donald Trump has announced that he will once again remove the United States, a leading carbon polluter, from the historic Paris climate agreement, further separating the United States from its closest allies.
The White House announcement, which coincided with Trump’s inauguration on Monday for a second term, was reminiscent of Trump’s declaration in 2017 that the United States would withdraw from the global Paris Accord.
Long-term global warming is to be kept to 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit (1.5 degrees Celsius) above pre-industrial levels, or, if that is not possible, to stay well below 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit (2 degrees Celsius) above pre-industrial levels, according to the agreement.
The 2015 Paris Agreement is voluntary and enables countries to set goals to reduce their own greenhouse gas emissions from burning natural gas, coal, and oil. These goals are expected to get harder over time, and countries will have to submit fresh individual plans by February 2025.
Last month, the departing Biden administration proposed a strategy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the United States by over 60% by 2035. The global temperature is currently 2.3 degrees Fahrenheit (1.3 degrees Celsius) higher than it was in the middle of the 1800s. The majority of climate monitoring organisations, though not all of them, declared that last year was the warmest year on record and that global temperatures had above the warming threshold of 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit. It takes a year to withdraw from the Paris Agreement.
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