The US - the top historic greenhouse gas emitter - will become the only country outside the accord.
The Trump administration said on Monday it filed paperwork to withdraw the United States from the Paris Agreement, the first formal step in a one-year process to exit the global pact to fight climate change.
“The US is proud of our record as a world leader in reducing all emissions, fostering resilience, growing our economy, and ensuring energy for our citizens,” he said. “While it serves the political needs of the Trump administration, we will lose a lot of traction with respect to US influence globally,” he said.
A report this year by state attorneys general said those rollbacks here could amount to a boost in US carbon emissions of over 200 million tonnes a year by 2025.
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