The Trump Administration and climate change
President Trump withdrew from the Paris Agreement in January 2025, the same month he came back to office for a second term. The withdrawal officially took effect in January 2026 because the Paris Agreement stipulates that a withdrawal will only be effective one year after a withdrawal intention is submitted to the United Nations. This is the second time President Trump is withdrawing from the Agreement, he withdrew in November 2020 during his first term in office, and this withdrawal was reversed by President Biden, who succeeded him as president in January 2021. It was the Obama administration that . . .