U.S. President Donald Trump "sees great promise in the United Nations if it focuses on its founding mission of international peace and security," his nominee to be ambassador told the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Tuesday.

President Donald Trump's pick for U.N. ambassador is sharing insight into his direction for foreign relations in a Senate committee hearing on Tuesday.

President Donald Trump's pick for U.N. ambassador will offer insight into his direction for foreign relations in a Senate committee hearing on Tuesday.

Trump's executive order called for an immediate withdrawal from the Paris Agreement. The Agreement requires one year notice, but there's room for interpretation.

Paris climate agreement is not the boogeyman that punishes the United States that critics such as President Donald Trump claim. But it hasn’t quite kept the world from overheating either. The Paris agreement is a mostly voluntary climate pact originally written in ways that would both try to reduce warming and withstand the changing political winds in the United States.

U.S. withdrawal from the world's primary climate pact will have a bigger impact - in the U.S. and globally - than the country's first retreat in 2017, analysts and diplomats told Reuters. One of President Donald Trump's first acts on returning to office on Monday was to quit the Paris Agreement as part of his plans to halt U.