US President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw the US from a pivotal global climate treaty could create major funding gaps and open the door for other countries, such as China, to assume more leadership, experts have said.
The Trump administration on Wednesday announced it would withdraw from dozens of international organisations, including scores of UN bodies.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said what started as a “pragmatic framework of international organisations for peace and co-operation has morphed into a sprawling architecture of global governance, often dominated by progressive ideology and detached from national interests”.
Among the most significant is the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, a key treaty signed by nearly every country and whic
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