Celebrate! POLITICO: ‘Quitting Paris was just the start’ for Trump’! – ‘May exit the world’s oldest climate treaty,’ the 1992 G.H.W. Bush Rio UN ‘Earth Summit’ fiasco
"It could be difficult for a new president to undo. Joining a treaty requires a two-thirds Senate vote."
By Marc Morano
May 14, 2025
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/power-switch/2025/05/14/quitting-paris-was-just-the-start-00349787 By ARIANNA SKIBELL
The Trump administration has been dropping hints it may exit the world’s oldest climate treaty — a move that would go way beyond his withdrawal from the 2015 Paris Agreement.
While in line with the president’s anti-climate action agenda, a retreat from the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change could ultimately curtail President Donald Trump’s international influence, writes Sara Schonhardt.
“If we pull out, then we essentially yield the field to anti-fossil-fuel interests,” George David Banks, who led international climate policy in the first Trump White House, told Sara.
During his first term, Trump declined to exit the UNFCCC, which the Democratic-led Senate had ratified during George H.W. Bush’s presidency following the “Earth Summit” in Rio de Janeiro. The treaty’s nearly 200 nations meet annually to chart paths for phasing down planet-warming pollution. One of those gatherings produced the Paris accord, which Trump has exited twice.
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