Joe Biden has said the U.S. will rejoin the Paris Climate Agreement on the same day he becomes president, should he win the election. "Today, the Trump Administration officially left the Paris ...

Biden immediately moved to rejoin the Paris Agreement on climate change, revoke a permit that former President Donald Trump granted to the controversial Keystone XL pipeline and place a temporary ...

As part of the third order he signed, Biden rejoined the Paris Agreement on climate change, a treaty the United States formally exited in November after Trump withdrew in 2017.

Biden plans to re-join the Paris Agreement. President-elect Joe Biden pictured at the Queen theater on December 19, 2020 in Wilmington, DE. Joshua Roberts/Getty Images ...

In a videotaped statement released Thursday, Biden revealed a new NDC under the Paris Agreement. The target calls for reducing net emissions to 61 percent to 66 percent below 2005 levels by 2035.

Because the withdrawal process takes a year, the United States technically remained a member of the agreement until Nov. 4, 2020 — one day after voters awarded the presidency to Biden.

Former President Joe Biden knew at the time Trump intended to put the US out of the Paris Agreement again, so the goal was a symbolic declaration of the course the country could have set out on ...

The Paris agreement is complex and works in a slow bureaucratic manner. ... It’s the second time he’s done it — then-President Joe Biden had the U.S. rejoin on his second day in office.