The United States has announced its withdrawal from 66 international organisations, including the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, in a move that has drawn sharp criticism from climate experts and former officials who say the decision undermines global efforts to tackle environmental crises.
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday suspending U.S. support for dozens of agencies and commissions, many of them linked to the United Nations.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio defended the decision, saying, “The Trump Administration has found these institutions to be redundant in their scope, mismanaged, unnecessary, wasteful, poorly run, captured by the interests of actors advancing their own agendas contrary to our own, or a threat to our nation’s sovereignty, freedoms, and general prosperity.”
The withdrawal from the UNFCCC, the treaty underpinning the Paris climate agreement, has been singled out as particularly damaging.
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