This executive order directs the United States to withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement, in which almost 200 parties voluntarily committed to reduce their carbon emissions. Our withdrawal will seriously jeopardize the ability of the world community to prevent a catastrophic global rise in temperatures. Climate change has already increased the frequency and severity of extreme weather events like hurricanes and wildfires around the world and in the United States, and in the years to come will only continue to prove destabilizing in alarming and unpredictable ways. Climate change is not only an environmental problem; it risks our long-term national security and economic prosperity. Notably, other than the United States, the only three countries who are not parties to the Paris Climate Agreement are Iran, Libya, and Yemen.