In January 2025, President Trump issued Executive Order 14162 which effectively withdrew the United States from the Paris Agreement, an internationally recognized treaty that purposes to address and mitigate the effects of climate change. Interestingly, the US is the only nation to have withdrawn and rejoined the Paris Agreement: the US first joined in 2016 during President Barack Obama’s term, then withdrew in Trump’s first presidency in 2020, then rejoined in 2021 under President Joe Biden, and, as it stands at the writing of this review, President Trump withdrew again early in 2025.[1][2] The back-and-forth nature of the US’s relationship Read more