Trump withdraws US from key climate treaty and dozens of other groups

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Various international bodies are deemed to “no longer serve American interests” and will lose funding. Obviously the ones promoting supposed climate risks are a particular irritation, as they see fossil fuels as a fair target rather than a universal benefit.
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US President Donald Trump has withdrawn the US from dozens of international organisations, including many that work to combat climate change, reports BBC News.

Nearly half of the 66 affected bodies are UN-related, including the Framework Convention on Climate Change – a treaty that underpins all international efforts to combat global warming.

Groups working on development, gender equality and conflict – areas the Trump administration had repeatedly dismissed as advancing “globalist” or “woke” agendas – are also included.
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“These withdrawals will end American taxpayer funding and involvement in entities that advance globalist agendas over US priorities,” it said in a statement.

It added that many of the organisations promoted “radical climate policies, global governance and ideological programs that conflict with US sovereignty and economic strength”.

As well as the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, the US has also withdrawn from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) – the world’s leading authority on climate science. [Talkshop comment – BBC assertion].
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These latest withdrawals come after the president last year withdrew the US from the Paris Climate Agreement for a second time, and declined to send a delegation to the COP30 climate summit in Brazil.

The US has also already withdrawn from the World Health Organization, the UN Human Rights Council and the UN’s cultural agency, UNESCO.

Full report here.
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