In June 2017, Mr. Trump held a press conference in the White House Rose Garden promising to withdraw from the agreement and said he was unfair to the United States, which would leave the agreement and then begin negotiations on readmission or a new agreement „on a level playing field for the United States.“ On June 1, 2017, U.S. President Donald Trump announced that the United States would end all participation in the 2015 Paris Climate Change Agreement and begin negotiations to reintroduce the agreement „on a level playing field for the United States, its businesses, its workers, their people, its taxpayers“ or form a new agreement. [1] In withdrawing from the agreement, Trump said that „the Paris agreement will hurt the U.S. economy“ and „permanently penalize the United States.“ [2] [3] Trump stated that the withdrawal would be consistent with his America First policy. A proposal from BNP Paribas Asset Management won a 53% majority at Chevron – it asked the oil giant to ensure that its climate lobby complied with the paris agreement`s objectives. Under Article 28 of the Paris Agreement, a country cannot announce its withdrawal from the agreement until three years after it enters into force in the country concerned, i.e. on November 4, 2016 in the case of the United States. Later, the White House said the United States would abide by the four-year withdrawal process. [4] On November 4, 2019, the administration announced a formal intention to resign, which takes 12 months. Until the withdrawal came into effect, the United States was required to meet its obligations under the agreement, such as the obligation to continue reporting its emissions to the United Nations. [5] The withdrawal came into effect on November 4, 2020, the day after the 2020 U.S.
presidential elections. [6] The delay is due to the complex rules introduced in the Paris Agreement to deal with the possibility that a future president of the United States will decide to withdraw the country from the agreement. Under this agreement, China, for example, will be able to increase these emissions by an astonishing number of years – 13.