Weakened70% impact weight
Withdrawing the world's second-largest emitter from the Paris Agreement and revoking federal climate rules directly weakens the decarbonization-policy driver at the international and domestic level.
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US again withdraws from the Paris Agreement and rolls back climate measures (2025)
On 20 January 2025, President Donald Trump signed Executive Order 14162 directing the United States to withdraw, for a second time, from the Paris Agreement, and issued accompanying orders to expand fossil-fuel production, revoke Biden-era climate initiatives, declare a national energy emergency and pause new federal wind leasing. The actions reversed a central pillar of prior US climate policy.
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On 20 January 2025, President Donald Trump signed Executive Order 14162 directing the United States to withdraw, for a second time, from the Paris Agreement, and issued accompanying orders to expand fossil-fuel production, revoke Biden-era climate initiatives, declare a national energy emergency and pause new federal wind leasing. The actions reversed a central pillar of prior US climate policy.
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