On President Trump’s first day in office, he pulled out of the Paris Agreement, a pact among nearly all nations to fight climate change. Reporting from Davos, Switzerland, David Gelles, a climate journalist for The New York Times,

The Paris agreement is complex and works in a slow bureaucratic manner. It’s a mostly voluntary climate pact originally written in ways that would both try to reduce a worsening climate change problem and withstand the changing political winds in the United States.

Trump signed an executive order that begins the process of withdrawing from the Paris Climate Agreement, which he also did during his first term.

With the US out of the tent, the rest of the world can get on with climate action without Trump’s corrosive influence.

Trump’s day-one actions on energy come as climate change-fueled fires ravage Southern California, following the globe’s hottest year on record.

The core of the UNFCCC's budget comes from its almost 200 member countries. View on euronews

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

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order directing the United States to again withdraw the United States from the landmark Paris climate agreement.

The Trump administration is also ending federal requirements that push car makers to produce more low-emission models.Start the day smarter. Get all the news you need in your inbox each morning.

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“Their silence now is cowardly, complicit in reinforcing the status quo fossil fuel economy, and shows that they care more about their own profits than the American people,” Bill Weihl, Facebook’s former director of sustainability, told Corbin and me.