During the second term of President Donald Trump, who won the election, the US is likely to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement and seek to lift most environmental restrictions, the New York Times reports.

„People working on the transition have already drafted several executive orders and presidential decrees on climate and energy issues. These include withdrawing the U.S. from the Paris climate agreement, eliminating all offices in agencies that work to stop pollution that disproportionately affects poor communities, and reducing the size of national wildlife refuges in the West to allow more mining and digging on public lands," the newspaper said.

Over the past 4 years, the administration of US President Joe Biden has allocated around $19 billion to environmental protection in agriculture to combat climate change. Environmentalists fear that Donald Trump will cut off all those investments in environmental projects that have been funded so far, because he has promised to make food more affordable for the population by making it cheaper.

The new US government's plans also include the creation of a chief energy coordinator, who will oversee government agencies' efforts to increase the production of conventional energy sources.

The Paris Climate Agreement was adopted on 12 December 2015 and signed by 175 countries, including the US, China and Russia. The agreement aims to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.

The US announced its withdrawal from the Paris Agreement in 2017, but could not formally withdraw until November 2020. On his first day in office, on 20 January 2021, Mr Biden signed an executive order to rejoin the agreement.