President Trump Exits the Failed Paris Climate Accord

President Donald Trump signed a multitude of executive orders on his first day in office, dealing with such issues as energy production, illegal immigration, and gender identity. One of the significant executive orders that he signed called for the United States to withdraw from the discredited 2015 Paris Climate Accord.

He also signed a letter formally notifying the United Nations of the U.S.’s intent to withdraw, which will take effect officially one year from the letter’s submission. President Trump had also withdrawn from this disastrous climate accord towards the end of his first term, only to be reversed by former President Joe Biden. Thank goodness that common sense has returned to the White House.

"I'm immediately withdrawing from the unfair, one-sided Paris Climate Accord rip-off," President Trump said in accurately describing this travesty. "The United States will not sabotage our own industries while China pollutes with impunity."

Globalists are aghast. Canada’s Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault, for example, called President Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Paris Climate Accord “deplorable.” The globalists are wrong, as usual. They are mired in their utopian fantasies rather than the real world.

For nearly a decade, most countries committed, pursuant to the Paris Climate Accord, to take individually defined actions to help achieve the goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial levels. Not only has it been an abject failure. The Biden Green New Deal administration allowed the U.S. to be played by China, which is the largest emitter of greenhouse gasses today.

China has not even committed to begin reducing its greenhouse gas emissions until 2030, while U.S. emissions have been decreasing for years. China had 1,161 operational coal power plants as of July 2024 – more than five times as many coal plants as the United States.

Unfazed by the realities on the ground, the Biden administration announced during its waning days last year its intention on behalf of the U.S. to slash greenhouse gases sixty-one percent below 2005 levels by 2035. 

In short, China places its own national economic growth interests – powered by fossil fuels – ahead of any good faith commitment to significantly reduce its greenhouse gas emissions in the foreseeable future. The Biden administration, on the other hand, subordinated a healthy U.S. economy to its radical Green New Deal agenda. Its wildly inflationary so-called Inflation Reduction Act called for handouts and tax credits to subsidize the green energy industrial complex to the tune of an estimated cost of $392 billion between 2022 and 2031.

Thankfully, President Trump is rolling back as much of the wasteful Green New Deal spending and anti-consumer green energy mandates as he can. And as part of his America First policies, he is extricating the United States from a globalist climate agreement that China is gaming and is detrimental to the American people.

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