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.

Before signing the order, Trump declared his reasons to an arena of cheering supporters, describing the global agreement as an 'unfair, one-sided Paris climate accord rip-off'

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