Experts decry move to leave UNFCCC as ‘embarrassing’ as president orders withdrawal from 66 international groups
Donald Trump has sparked outrage by announcing the US will exit the foundational international agreement to address the climate crisis, cementing the US’s utter isolation from the global effort to confront dangerously escalating temperatures.
In a presidential memorandum issued on Wednesday, Trump stated that the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is, along with 65 other organizations, agencies and commissions, “contrary to the interests of the United States” and will be ditched.
The UNFCCC treaty forms the bedrock of international co-operation to deal with the climate crisis and has been agreed to by every country in the world since its inception 34 years ago. The US Senate ratified the treaty in October 1992.
Trump has, however, routinely ridiculed climate science as a “scam” and a “hoax” and has actively hobbled clean energy projects and other climate policies as president, attempting to force the US and other countries to stay wedded to the fossil fuels that are driving disastrous heatwaves, storms, droughts and conflicts that imperils billions of people around the world.
Man, those epstein files must be fucking nuts with all the shit he’s been stirring up lately.
You know those millions of documents that haven’t been released yet. They all just repeatedly say “Trump did all of it” over and over again. The blackout markers keep running out of ink, they bought all of Costco’s supply and now they have to do delay for more to be in stock. Unfortunately they are made in China and are therefore subject to tariffs.
Gotta lay the foundation for small squabbles so that we can build a proper straw man whenever we wanna invade our allies.
1% released, 99% not definitely. also most of the people besides trump and few others are sitll unkown, and likely contains so many ceos, politicians all over the globe.
There’s still 100x more documents
There has to be selfies with his mushroom dick in known victims. His starting WWIII just to distract.
nah just good ol us imperialism.
Which treaty is the one he really wants to dissolve? I bet it’s one Russia wants dead.