The Paris agreement is a mostly voluntary climate pact originally written to both try to reduce warming and withstand the changing political winds in the U.S.

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This is the second time Trump has confirmed he will be withdrawing from the Paris agreement — the first was during his first term in 2017. When Biden became president in 2021, he rejoined the agreement.