Donald Trump has decided to withdraw the US from the world’s most important climate treaty, as well as from dozens of other international organisations, as the president doubles down on upending decades of global co-operation to tackle rising temperatures.
In a presidential memorandum issued on Wednesday evening, Trump said the US would withdraw from the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, and 65 additional UN and other multilateral groups, mostly linked to the environment, renewable energy, development, education and the promotion of democracy and human rights.
They include the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the global body of climate scientists, the International Trade Centre, the UN Population Fund and the International Union for Conservation of Nature.