The Commission’s response to the United States’ withdrawal from the Paris Agreement
29.1.2025
Question for written answer E-000403/2025
to the Commission
Rule 144
Ondřej Knotek (PfE), Tomáš Kubín (PfE), Jaroslava Pokorná Jermanová (PfE), Jaroslav Bžoch (PfE), Ondřej Kovařík (PfE), Klara Dostalova (PfE), Kateřina Konečná (NI), António Tânger Corrêa (PfE), Marie-Luce Brasier-Clain (PfE), Margarita de la Pisa Carrión (PfE), Tomasz Froelich (ESN), Angéline Furet (PfE), Erik Kaliňák (NI), Silvia Sardone (PfE), Andreas Schieder (S&D), Dominik Tarczyński (ECR), Ewa Zajączkowska-Hernik (ESN), Nikola Bartůšek (PfE), Monika Beňová (NI), Anna Bryłka (PfE), Fernand Kartheiser (ECR), Ondřej Krutílek (ECR), Piotr Müller (ECR), Jana Nagyová (PfE), Branislav Ondruš (NI), Christine Singer (Renew), Filip Turek (PfE), Tom Vandendriessche (PfE), Roberto Vannacci (PfE), Anders Vistisen (PfE), Anna Zalewska (ECR), Jorge Buxadé Villalba (PfE), Branko Grims (PPE), Alexandr Vondra (ECR), Diana Iovanovici Şoşoacă (NI), Aleksandar Nikolic (PfE), Hermann Tertsch (PfE)
On 20 January 2025, the re-elected President of the United States of America, Donald Trump, signed an executive order to implement the United States’ withdrawal from the Paris Agreement under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change[1]:
It is expected that, as a result, energy-intensive industries and citizens in the United States will be relieved of the bureaucratic burdens and legal requirements associated with previous climate policy.
- 1.How does the Commission intend to react to this step?
- 2.How can it be ensured that industry in the EU Member States, in particular energy-intensive industry, is not put at a disadvantage compared to its US competitors?
- 3.In response to this executive order, is the Commission considering withdrawing or at least mitigating EU laws that place a particular burden on industry and citizens in the EU Member States as part of the ‘Fit for 55’ legislative package?
Submitted: 29.1.2025
- [1] https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/putting-america-first-in-international-environmental-agreements/.