 On August 4, 2017, the Trump Administration delivered an official notice to the United Nations that the US intended to withdraw from the Paris Agreement as soon as it is legally eligible to do so.The formal notice of withdrawal could not be submitted until the agreement had been in force for 3 years for the US, in 2019.According to a memo obtained by "HuffPost" believed to be written by US State Department legal office, any "attempts to withdraw from the Paris Agreement outside of the above-described withdrawal provisions would be inconsistent with international law and would not be accepted internationally."