The United States will be one of only four countries outside the Paris Agreement, which is designed to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions.

Executive orders are regularly used by incoming presidents to kick off their administrations. The orders - the most formal type of “executive actions,” which derive their power from Article II of the Constitution - are official statements from the president about how US federal agencies are to use their resources,

One of the most prominent actions was a mandate requiring federal employees to return to their offices five days a week, ending remote work.Donald Trump, Executive orders, Mexico, Cuba, Paris climate agreement,

Trump’s famous black Sharpie scrawl is back. He’s showing off his signature as he signs an initial round of executive orders.

There are 50 to 100 expected executive orders. Many will focus on boosting fossil fuels and reversing climate policy.

On his first day in office as the 47th President of the United States, Donald Trump began to implement his agenda for reshaping the nation's institutions. He signed a flurry of executive orders, memorandums,

In a controversial move, President Trump officially withdrawn the U.S. from the Paris Climate Agreement for the second time, challenging global efforts to address climate change as extreme weather events escalate worldwide.

Beyond jettisoning the Paris Agreement, Trump has vowed to undo a host of federal policies critical for the U.S. to meet its emission-cutting pledges, including a promised 50 per cent to 52 per cent reduction from 2005 levels by the end of the decade.

The Paris agreement is complex and works in a slow bureaucratic manner. It’s a mostly voluntary climate pact originally written in ways that would both try to reduce a worsening climate change problem and withstand the changing political winds in the United States.

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 withdrawal from the Paris Agreement, the WHO, and the pact to tax large multinationals adds to the president’s expansionist rhetoric and his conviction that ‘everybody needs’ the United States