He had barely gotten warm in his clothes, 46th President of the United States Joe Biden, before signing several presidential orders, including the United States rejoining the Paris Agreement immediately.
The United States chose to abandon the Global Climate Agreement, which aims to limit the effects of global warming, last year, when Donald Trump said it was harmful to the US economy and did not put enough pressure on poorer countries.
But the decision to leave was met by strong protests from the outside world.
"Be the first of many commitments"
However, Joe Biden promised during the election campaign to rejoin the agreement if he became president.
Said and done, just a few hours after he took the oath of office, he kicked off his term by writing about it.
- This will be the first of many commitments we will have here, says Biden sitting at the desk in the Oval room.
A decision welcomed by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.
"The climate crisis continues to worsen and time is running out to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 degrees," reads a press release from Guterres.
Wrote on 17 orders
Biden signed a total of 17 orders, including that it will now be forced with a face mask in federal real estate, the construction of the wall against Mexico is stopped and he also withdraws the permit for the controversial oil pipeline Keystone XL that would go from Canada to the United States.
The 46th President of the United States also signed that the United States will be involved in contributing to the World Health Organization WHO again.
Last year, Trump accused the WHO of not being independent of China and stopped supporting the WHO.