Trump withdraws US from 31 bodies in UN, already in fiscal peril
Story by Magdalena Del Valle and Jennifer A. Dlouhy • 9h
(Bloomberg) -- President Donald Trump has ordered the US government to pull out of 66 international organizations that the White House said “no longer serve American interests.”
That includes 31 United Nations entities, as well as 35 non-UN organizations “that operate contrary to US national interests, security, economic prosperity, or sovereignty,” according to a White House fact sheet issued Wednesday. Trump directed US agencies to cease participating and funding the entities in a presidential memo.
Trump and his allies have long expressed disdain for the UN, other international organizations and accords. The decision extends the Trump administration’s retreat from international climate diplomacy by pulling back from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the 1992 UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, a treaty that lays out a goal of stabilizing greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere and compels member countries to provide a yearly inventory of that planet-warming pollution.
The framework also undergirds the Paris Agreement, the carbon-cutting pact from which Trump has already directed a US withdrawal set to take effect later this month.
Trump’s move is consistent with his domestic policy shifts, as regulatory agencies rewrite rules that clamped down on pollution tied to producing and consuming fossil fuels. Environmentalists warned Trump’s departure would leave the US outside of key decisions on how to address the world’s warming.
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