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US likely to withdraw from Paris Agreement under Trump’s reign — expert

Igbal Guliev noted that Donald Trump "now offers an ambitious plan to boost hydrocarbon production in the country and keep fuel prices at a low level, promising to become an 'energy president' of the United States"

MOSCOW, November 7. /TASS/. Donald Trump will likely pull the US out of the Paris Agreement on climate and lift the ban on issuing new liquefied natural gas (LNG) export licenses after returning to the White House next January, Deputy Director of the International Institute of Energy Policy and Diplomacy Igbal Guliev told TASS.

"Trump made America almost energy-independent during his first tenure in the presidential office. He now offers an ambitious plan to boost hydrocarbon production in the country and keep fuel prices at a low level, promising to become an 'energy president' of the United States," the expert said. "Trump also withdrew from the Paris Agreement, stating there is no need for that and that it puts the country at a disadvantage compared to China. It is not ruled out that he will do so again," Guliev said.

"In 2024, the Biden administration froze issuing new LNG export licenses to investigate its impact on the environment - a pre-election move popular with 'green' activists. I think the president-elect will cancel that moratorium very soon," he added.

Trump has repeatedly voiced doubts about the scientific rationale behind the concept of global warming. The US withdrew from the Paris Agreement in 2017, but President Joe Biden signed an executive order in January 2021 to rejoin the agreement.