It came as a surprise to nobody that one of Donald Trump's first acts on his return to the White House was to sign an executive order withdrawing the US from the Paris agreement on climate change.

On Friday, nearly 150 congressional Democrats signed a resolution condemning President Trump's withdrawal from the Paris Climate Accords. Since its enactment in 2016, the agreement has been controversial among conservative politicians.

Paris climate agreement is not the boogeyman that critics such as President Trump claim, but it hasn't kept the world from overheating, either. Here's a closer look.

The United Nations confirmed Tuesday it had received notification from Washington of its withdrawal from the Paris climate change agreement, a key campaign pledge of US President Donald Trump.

President Donald Trump pulled the US out of the Paris Agreement. The stakes couldn’t be higher for the planet and our ability to adapt.

Trump's executive order called for an immediate withdrawal from the Paris Agreement. The agreement requires one year notice, but there's room for interpretation.

Donald Trump, for a second time, has withdrawn the U.S. from the Paris Agreement, which puts us in the company of Iran, Libya and Yemen.

This is the second time Trump has pulled the U.S. out of the Paris climate agreement (Getty Images) “We continue to work relentlessly, but our resources are increasingly over-stretched,” a ...

Trump signed an executive order that begins the process of withdrawing from the Paris Climate Agreement, which he also did during his first term.

When Trump announced the U.S. withdrawal from the climate agreement in 2017, the move reverberated around the globe. Nearly 200 nations had committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions under the pact when it was created in 2015, and they had set ambitious targets to keep global temperature rise well below 2°C, and ideally below 1.5°C.

"The United States notified the Secretary-General, in his capacity as depositary, of its withdrawal, on Jan 27, 2025, from the Paris Agreement of 12 December 2015," Stephane Dujarric, spokesman for UN chief Antonio Guterres, said at a daily briefing.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The 2015 Paris climate agreement is not the boogeyman that punishes the United States that critics such as President Donald Trump claim. But it hasn't quite kept the world from ...