CCSO - Trump's Withdrawal From Climate Pact, UN Treaty Could Leave U.S. On The Sidelines
2025-01-22 06:41:00 ET
Summary
- Among President Donald Trump's flurry of Jan. 20 executive orders was one promising to withdraw the US from the Paris Agreement on climate change and disengage the country from the treaty-bound United Nations entity coordinating the world's response to global warming.
- Diplomats and international relations analysts have warned that the US risks being left on the sidelines as other signatories, such as the European Union and China, pick up the mantle and negotiate outcomes that can affect American industry without input from US diplomats.
- When it officially leaves the Paris Agreement, the US will join Iran, Libya and Yemen as nations not party to the deal to limit the rise of global temperatures to 1.5 degrees C from pre-industrial levels.
Among President Donald Trump's flurry of Jan. 20 executive orders was one promising to withdraw the US from the Paris Agreement on climate change and disengage the country from the treaty-bound United Nations entity coordinating the world's response to global warming....
Trump's Withdrawal From Climate Pact, UN Treaty Could Leave U.S. On The Sidelines