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#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

CNN

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.

🎄Merry Mastodonphan🎄

@mast0d0nphan@beige.party replied · 4 days ago

@Nonilex Can somebody kill him already?

Su_G

@Su_G@aus.social replied · 4 days ago

@Nonilex

No glory! ☹️
Like so many other things the Thump regime does: they’re happy to take the benefit but they don’t participate in solutions nor contribute their share of the costs. Freeloaders all the way down.
😐

Lizzie

@Lizette603_23@mastodon.social replied · 4 days ago

@Nonilex I want to see him reap what he is sowing, on camera, tomorrow

Nonilex

@Nonilex@masto.ai replied · 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.”

#geopolitics #ClimateCrisis

Nonilex

@Nonilex@masto.ai replied · 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.

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

Nonilex

@Nonilex@masto.ai replied · 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

@BillMcGuire@mastodon.social

@BillMcGuire@mastodon.social replied · 4 days ago

@Nonilex

isn't it difficult to believe/realize just how damned BAD this trump administration has become. I think we should fire the whole lot of them!!

Nonilex

@Nonilex@masto.ai replied · 4 days ago

“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.”

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

Lizzie

@Lizette603_23@mastodon.social replied · 4 days ago

@Nonilex Rubio wants his own country because he has no dick

Nonilex

@Nonilex@masto.ai replied · 4 days ago

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

Lizzie

@Lizette603_23@mastodon.social replied · 4 days ago

@Nonilex everything is intended to make us pariahs, isolate you and me and take over the entire country while we starve and die. I mean that's what they jerk off to

Lizzie

@Lizette603_23@mastodon.social replied · 4 days ago

@Nonilex an avalanche of hate cruelty murder abuse and thievery

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