U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's transition team has prepared executive orders and proclamations on withdrawing from the Paris climate agreement and shrinking the size of some national monuments to allow more drilling and mining,

The world is bracing for President-elect Donald Trump to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement. It wouldn’t be the first time. But unlike 2017, when he pulled the U.S. out of the global pact, he could move faster and potentially with less restraint now.

Donald Trump is preparing to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement when he returns to office in January. The president-elect’s team has already prepared an executive order that would see the US leave the international treaty,