Drill, baby, drill: Trump signed an order for the US to withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement.

On Monday evening at the White House, President Donald Trump, in the early hours of his presidency, signed an order for the United States to withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement, including a letter to the UN explaining this decision.

He also declared a "national energy emergency" to roll back many of the environmental restrictions from the Biden era.

During a speech at the Capital One Arena in Washington, Trump referred to the Paris Agreement as a "hoax" in his inaugural address.

"We will drill, baby, drill," he stated.

The President further promised that the U.S. would embark on a new era of oil and gas exploration and extraction.

"We will lower prices, refill our strategic reserves to the top, and export American energy around the globe," he told the audience.

"We will be a wealthy nation again, and the liquid gold beneath our feet will help with that," he added.

This marks the second time Trump has initiated a withdrawal from an international pact aimed at combating global warming.

The Paris Agreement is an international pact designed to limit global warming by reducing greenhouse gas emissions. This is the second attempt by the Trump administration to pull the U.S. out of the Paris Agreement, the first being in 2017, which was reversed by Joe Biden on his first day in office in 2021.

According to the procedure, the U.S. will have to wait a year for the official withdrawal.

Trump's antipathy towards the agreement was reflected in his 2017 statement that he was chosen "to represent the people of Pittsburgh, not Paris."

The temperature threshold of 2 °C was established in the Paris Agreement as the level beyond which the world would face extremely dangerous impacts.

Now, the U.S. will join Iran, Yemen, and Libya as the only countries currently outside the agreement that was signed a decade ago in the French capital.