India, Jan. 29 -- The United States has officially notified the Secretary-General of its withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement, effective 27 January 2026, UN Spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said on Tuesday.

The 'historic accord' reached by 193 countries in December 2015 in a bid to keep temperature rises to below 1.5degC above pre-industrial levels, was signed by the US on 22 April 2016, read the UN website.

During the first Trump administration the US withdrew from the Agreement effective 4 November 2020, before his successor took the country back into the accord on 19 February 2021.

In a repeat of his 2017 stance, US president Donald Trump pulled out the nation from the climate agreement - dubbed as Paris Accord - in one of the ...