When President Biden took office in 2021, he issued several executive orders to address climate change. Now the opposite is happening. President Trump is now in power and is signing EOs at a ferocious pace. Many of these actions take the oft-used “head in the sand” approach to climate change policy, seeking to limit or reverse any changes made by the Biden administration. President Trump’s first step was to pull the US out of the Paris Climate Accord…again.
President Trump begins a deluge of executive orders by revoking 78 executive orders from the Biden administration, including one on AI guidelines, before implementing a federal hiring freeze and mandating no new regulations. did. Keep in mind that EO cannot change laws or regulations, but that doesn’t stop President Trump from trying. In other words, some of these will likely be embroiled in lengthy legal battles.
President Trump withdrew the United States from the Paris climate accord during his first term, but Biden reinstated the agreement. Now history repeats itself. The president again removed the United States from the list of agreements. This makes the United States one of the few countries not party to the 2015 agreement, along with Iran, Libya, South Sudan, Eritrea and Yemen.
It also means the US is likely to renege on all commitments it made under the deal, including pledges to provide climate change aid to developing countries and pledges to cut emissions by up to 66 percent by 2035. do. The Trump administration must notify the United Nations in writing. Japan has announced its intention to withdraw from the agreement, and is expected to take a year to formally withdraw from the agreement.
