In a Day 1 executive order, President Donald Trump withdrew from the landmark climate accord. Additional orders on energy are expected.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump will order the U.S. to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement, the White House said on Monday, once again placing the world's top historic emitter of greenhouse gas emissions outside of the global pact aimed at pushing nations to tackle climate change through domestic actions.

President Donald Trump on Monday signed an order to withdraw the United States from the Paris climate agreement for a second time, a defiant rejection of global efforts to combat planetary warming as catastrophic weather events intensify worldwide.

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

Trump had pulled the US out of the Paris Agreement during his first term as well, but his successor Joe Biden had got back in four years later.

President Donald Trump will once again withdraw the United States from the Paris climate deal, the White House said on Monday, removing the world's biggest historic emitter from global efforts to fight climate change for the second time in a decade.

Under the U.N. rules at the time, the U.S. withdrawal took three years to take effect, allowing former President Joe Biden to swiftly reinstate American participation in the accords. This time, however, the U.S. could completely quit the Paris Agreement in just one year.

At the Capital One Arena in Washington, D.C., Trump signed a several executive orders, one being the U.S. withdrawal from the United Nations’s Paris Agreement. Trump pulled the U.S. from the agreement in his first term in 2020 but it took years to finalize. Former President Joe Biden rejoined the agreement shortly after.

The Republican leader also declared a "national energy emergency" to expand drilling in the world's top oil and gas producer, said he would scrap vehicle emissions standards that amount to an "electric vehicle mandate,

President Trump ‘s second term is beginning with efforts to deliver on his promise to crack down on immigration and restore " energy dominance.”

U.S. President Donald Trump issued a flurry of orders within hours of his inauguration on Monday intended to boost the nation's already record-high oil and gas production and unwind former President Joe Biden's climate agenda.