In this April 3, 2014 file photo giant machines dig for brown coal at the open-cast mining Garzweiler in front of a power plant near the city of Grevenbroich in western Germany. (Photo: AP)

WASHINGTON, Nov. 4 (Xinhua) -- The United States began on Monday the process of withdrawing from the Paris Agreement, according to a statement by US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.

US President Donald Trump announced in June 2017 that his country would leave the Paris Agreement.