US EditionTrump Withdraws US From World’s Most Important Climate Treaty
The Trump administration's withdrawal affects 66 UN and multilateral organizations, citing taxpayer savings and opposition to global governance, amid criticism of US climate policy retreat.
- On Wednesday, President Donald Trump issued a presidential memorandum withdrawing the United States from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and 65 additional UN and multilateral groups.
- The White House said the move targets 66 international organizations including 31 UN entities to save taxpayers money and advance President Donald Trump's 'America First' agenda, after he last year branded climate change a 'con job' and planned to leave the Paris Agreement again.
- The withdrawals explicitly include agencies such as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the International Trade Centre, the UN Population Fund and the International Union for Conservation of Nature, while Simon Stiell said the exit weakens US security and experts note reentry difficulty varies.
- World leaders and European governments condemned the move, with European Commissioner for Climate Action Wopke Hoekstra saying `We will also continue to work on international climate cooperation. And at home, we will continue to pursue our agenda of climate action, competitiveness, and independence`.
- With the US stepping back, Beijing's moves on climate reporting position it to assume greater leadership as China consolidates its corporate climate reporting architecture, continuing a trend after Washington skipped last year's COP30 climate summit in Brazil.
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The US President Donald Trump's withdrawal from 66 international organizations and treaties, including the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, has provided international criticism. The organizations and treaties are "contrary to the interests of the United States", the White House stated on Wednesday (local time) in the online service X Trump's signing of a corresponding decree. The UN Climate Secretariat then called the step on Thursday …
Donald Trump ordered the release of the United States of treaties and climate organizations that would no longer serve "American interests", including the UNFCCC. The UN denounces a decision that will leave the country "less secure and less prosperous"
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