REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, WASHINGTON -- U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday that he has decided to pull the United States out of the Paris Agreement, a landmark global pact to fight climate change.

The U.S. will stop honoring non-binding parts of the deal "as of today," Trump said at a Press Conference in the White House Rose Garden.

Trump's decision to withdraw the United States from the Paris Agreement fulfilled a campaign promise, but was expected to meet widespread opposition both at home and abroad.

Before the decision on Thursday, Trump, who once called climate change a "hoax," had already taken a series of actions aimed at reversing his predecessor Barack Obama's climate policies.