Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump waves at a campaign rally in Chesapeake, Virginia, on June 28, 2024. | Steve Helber/APDonald Trump would yank the United States out of the Paris climate accord for the second time if he wins the presidency again in November, a campaign spokesperson told POLITICO Friday.
with President Joe Biden in Atlanta on Thursday, saying the agreement was “a rip off of the United States” and “a disaster.”“A couple different versions” of draft executive orders pulling the U.S. out of the accord currently exist for Trump to sign, an oil industry lawyer familiar with the process told POLITICO.
The Biden administration has made progress in securing global agreements to combat climate change since returning to the Paris agreement after Trump’s withdrawal. This includes a, the world’s largest climate polluter, to reduce emissions from the power sector this decade and curb all greenhouse gases.
The conservative think tank Heritage Foundation includes such a step in its Project 2025 policy blueprint, a sprawling manifesto detailing actions they hope the next Republican president would take. The Trump campaign has usually declined to confirm or deny that it would pursue specific proposals outlined in the Heritage document, instead asserting that only Trump and his team have the authority to announce his policy positions.
A U.S. departure would impede the UNFCCC’s operations, as the U.S. is a major funder of the treaty. It also could erect more significant hurdles for a future president to rejoin the Paris climate agreement.