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US withdrawal from Paris Agreement takes effect

The US exit leaves it isolated in global climate efforts, undermining emissions targets and international cooperation amid growing clean energy investments worldwide, experts say.

  • On Tuesday, Washington formally withdrew from the Paris Agreement, marking the second time President Donald Trump has pulled the United States out and ending U.S. emissions-reduction commitments.
  • The administration framed the withdrawal as an "America First" policy and followed an executive order signed one year earlier to start the formal exit process.
  • As of Tuesday, the United States is no longer a party to the Paris Agreement and stands as the only country to abandon the pact, experts warn this complicates global climate talks.
  • Experts say the move immediately sidelines U.S. influence as an observer and undermines technology and finance access for developing countries, creating space for China and international climate bodies to expand influence.
  • A future president could rejoin the Paris Agreement on day one, while global renewable investment reached $386 billion and renewables supplied over 90 per cent of new power capacity in 2025.
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Donald Trump holds his election promise: the US's exit from the Paris climate agreement will be implemented as well as the exit from the WHO. This will cause indignation in the colourful Republic of Germany, where the opposite of what the voters had been promised was most recently done. Here, international treaty works are readily placed above the will and interests of their own citizens. But why – and at what cost? The following comment by Juli…

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Clean Technica broke the news in on Tuesday, January 27, 2026.
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