Trump plans to withdraw US from Paris climate agreement for second time
Jan 20, 2025
In 2021, Biden had rejoined 2015 treaty that seeks to curb climate crisis effects after Trump first pulled out in 2017Donald Trump inauguration – live updatesDonald Trump said on Monday that the US would repeat his first-term move and withdraw the US, the world’s second biggest emitter of planet-heating pollution, from the “unfair one-sided Paris climate accord rip off”.Trump made the remarks to leave the agreement – the world’s main effort to mitigate the worst impacts of the climate crisis – while speaking to supporters at the Capital One Arena in Washington DC hours after being sworn in for a second term as president. Continue reading...