President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed a memorandum withdrawing the US from dozens of international organisations, including 31 UN bodies.
The White House said continued participation in those organisations, conventions and treaties was "contrary to the interests of the United States".
"Many of these bodies promote radical climate policies, global governance and ideological programmes that conflict with US sovereignty and economic strength," a White House fact sheet said.
"These withdrawals will end American taxpayer funding and involvement in entities that advance globalist agendas over US priorities, or that address important issues inefficiently or ineffectively such that US taxpayer dollars are best allocated in other ways to support the relevant missions."
The effort took aim at 66 organisations, agencies and commissions, most of them UN affiliated, that deal with climate change, wo
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