# The United States submits formal Paris Agreement withdrawal notice under Trump

Date: 2017

## The fact

In 2017 [President Trump](/people/mig-donald-trump) announced intent to withdraw from the Paris Agreement; the United States deposited a formal withdrawal notification with the United Nations on 4 November 2019, which took effect on 4 November 2020 under Article 28. This Fact stores the first-term withdrawal track as completed when notice could be deposited, using the 2017 decision date as the presidential act that started the clock, with the depositary effect dated in neighbouring rows if present. Here the presidential announcement-and-instruction of 1 June 2017, implemented by State, is the instrument.

## Context

Article 28 of the Paris Agreement imposes a three-year wait from entry into force before notice, then a one-year notice. Trump could not exit on the announcement day. Other parties stayed. U.S. cities and states announced ‘We Are Still In’. Those subnational acts are not this Fact.

Donald Trump did not act alone on every file. Congress, courts, agencies, foreign counterparts, and later administrators share specific instruments. Office-holding is not automatic authorship of every downstream welfare series. Allegation is not a completed judgment.

## Evidence and sources

The White House 1 June 2017 statement and later UN depositary notice are official. Independent reporting records the Rose Garden announcement. They do not print a unique 2017 gigatonne from the lawn.

## Significance

Decarbonization-policy path: a completed presidential decision to leave Paris reduced expected federal NDC discipline, with treaty lag.

A completed first-term decision to leave Paris reduced U.S. federal participation in the NDC regime, with treaty lag.

## What is established and what is not

Established: 1 June 2017 presidential decision to withdraw, later deposited. Not established: that global emissions in 2017 were this speech.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit. The score must not merge 2017, 2019 deposit, 2020 effect, 2021 rejoin, and 2025 second withdrawal into one row.

State deposited later. Other parties stayed in.. Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. The contribution type is direct. Trump’s documented role is limited to the instrument named in the title. He did not write the independent newspaper; the newspaper did not enact the instrument. Off-family indicator padding is refused.

## People

- Donald Trump: https://factrail.ai/people/donald-trump

## Drivers

- Decarbonization and climate-mitigation policy: https://factrail.ai/drivers/env-decarbonization-policy

## Sources

- https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-climatechange-idUSKBN18S5J3/
- https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefings-statements/statement-president-trump-paris-climate-accord/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/us-fact-paris-withdrawal-notice-2017