Trump withdraws #US from world’s most important #climate #treaty
Trump withdraws from #UN Framework Convention on #ClimateChange ( #UNFCCC) and 65 additional UN and other multilateral groups, mostly linked to the environment, renewable energy, development, education, and the promotion of democracy and human rights.
A year after Trump, who last year branded climate change a “con job,” announced that he would pull US from the 2015 Paris climate agreement for the second time.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/01/trump-withdraws-us-from-worlds-most-important-climate-treaty/

Trump withdraws #US from world’s most important #climate #treaty
Trump withdraws from #UN Framework Convention on #ClimateChange ( #UNFCCC) and 65 additional UN and other multilateral groups, mostly linked to the environment, renewable energy, development, education, and the promotion of democracy and human rights.
A year after Trump, who last year branded climate change a “con job,” announced that he would pull US from the 2015 Paris climate agreement for the second time.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/01/trump-withdraws-us-from-worlds-most-important-climate-treaty/

The #UNFCCC treaty for global cooperation on climate change serves the survival interests of everyone on this planet.

Every country in the world has agreed to it.

Trump withdrawing the US because it “no longer serves American interests” is not just ‘embarrassing’, it’s dangerous.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/07/trump-international-groups-un

The #UNFCCC treaty for global cooperation on climate change serves the survival interests of everyone on this planet.

Every country in the world has agreed to it.

Trump withdrawing the US because it “no longer serves American interests” is not just ‘embarrassing’, it’s dangerous.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/07/trump-international-groups-un

Former Secy of State & US #climate envoy #JohnKerry blasted the move as an expected one, yet damaging to #US interests globally, calling it “a gift to China & a get out of jail free card to countries & polluters who want to avoid responsibility.”

Because the #Senate ratified the #UNFCCC in 1992, it is a #legal gray area as to whether #Trump can unilaterally pull the country out of it. However, if #Congress plays a role, the #Republican majority would presumably back the move.

#ClimateChange

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.

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

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.”

#geopolitics #ClimateCrisis

Trump Pulls Out of Global #Climate Treaty
The action could make it more difficult for a future administration to rejoin the Paris climate accord, the agreement among most nations to fight #climatechange.
The agreement, officially known as the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, was established in 1992 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Known by its acronym, #UNFCCC, it was the foundation for the Paris agreement a decade ago.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/climate/trump-un-climate-treaty.html
https://archive.ph/ADWqP

Trump Pulls Out of Global #Climate Treaty
The action could make it more difficult for a future administration to rejoin the Paris climate accord, the agreement among most nations to fight #climatechange.
The agreement, officially known as the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, was established in 1992 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Known by its acronym, #UNFCCC, it was the foundation for the Paris agreement a decade ago.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/climate/trump-un-climate-treaty.html
https://archive.ph/ADWqP

Former Secy of State & US #climate envoy #JohnKerry blasted the move as an expected one, yet damaging to #US interests globally, calling it “a gift to China & a get out of jail free card to countries & polluters who want to avoid responsibility.”

Because the #Senate ratified the #UNFCCC in 1992, it is a #legal gray area as to whether #Trump can unilaterally pull the country out of it. However, if #Congress plays a role, the #Republican majority would presumably back the move.

#ClimateChange

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.

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

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.”

#geopolitics #ClimateCrisis