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“We will not continue expending resources, diplomatic capital, & the legitimizing weight of our participation in institutions that are irrelevant to or in conflict with our interests,” Secy of #State #MarcoRubio said in a statement. “We seek cooperation where it serves our people & will stand firm where it does not.”

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Nonilex

@Nonilex@masto.ai · 4 days ago

It also set up a process for negotiations between countries that have come to be known as the annual #UN #climate summits. It was under the #UNFCCC’s auspices that the #KyotoProtocol was negotiated in 1995, & the #ParisAgreement in 2015 — two monumental moments of global cooperation & progress toward limiting harmful climate #pollution.

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Nonilex

@Nonilex@masto.ai · 4 days ago

#US leaving #climate #treaty

#Trump directive makes the #UnitedStates the 1st country to pull out of the 1992 agreement that underpins global cooperation on #ClimateChange

The Trump admin is pulling the US out of the bedrock treaty underpinning international cooperation on climate change, along with dozens of other global bodies, acc/to a memo released by the White House Wednesday evening & an accompanying social media post.

#geopolitics #ClimateCrisis #Fight4aFuture
https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/07/climate/trump-withdrawal-climate-treaty-international-agreements

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Trump moves to pull US out of bedrock global climate treaty, becoming first country to do so | CNN

The Trump administration is pulling the United States out of the bedrock treaty that underpins international cooperation on climate change, along with dozens of other global bodies.

Nonilex

@Nonilex@masto.ai · 4 days ago

In addition, the agreement requires the submission of an annual national #climate #pollution inventory, which the #Trump admin notably skipped this year.

The exit from the climate #treaty, & a slew of other international agencies, is another step back from the #US on international cooperation.

The action, if successful, would leave the US out of international #ClimateChange talks & could raise tensions with US #allies for whom #climate action is a priority.

#geopolitics #ClimateCrisis

Nonilex

@Nonilex@masto.ai replied · 4 days ago

#geopolitics #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #PublicHealth #Fight4aFuture #law

Nonilex

@Nonilex@masto.ai · 4 days ago

The agreement in question is the #UnitedNations Framework Convention on #ClimateChange, or #UNFCCC, which the #US joined & #Congress ratified in 1992, when George H.W. Bush was in the White House. The agreement does not require the US to cut #FossilFuels or #pollution, but rather sets a goal of stabilizing the amount of climate pollution in the atmosphere at a level that would “prevent dangerous anthropogenic (human-caused) interference with the climate system.”