The agreement was meant to ensure global cooperation in reducing the amount of carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere.

The outgoing Biden administration last month offered a plan to cut US greenhouse gas emissions by more than 60% by 2035.

President Donald Trump will order the U.S. to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement, the White House said on Monday, once again placing the world's top historic emitter of greenhouse gas emissions outside of the global pact aimed at pushing nations to tackle climate change through domestic actions.

The White House announces a "national energy emergency" to reverse US climate regulations and boost oil and gas.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday directing the United States to again withdraw from the landmark Paris climate agreement, dealing a blow to worldwide efforts to combat global warming and once again distancing the US from its closest allies.

President Donald Trump is once again withdrawing the United States from the Paris climate accords, pulling the nation whose factories, cars and power plants contributed the most cumulative planet-heating pollution to the atmosphere out of the first global pact to slash carbon emissions enough to prevent the world’s average temperature from reaching dangerous new heights.