Experts decry move to leave UNFCCC as ‘embarrassing’ as president orders withdrawal from 66 international groups
Donald Trump has sparked outrage by announcing the US will exit the foundational international agreement to address the climate crisis, cementing the US’s utter isolation from the global effort to confront dangerously escalating temperatures.
In a presidential memorandum issued on Wednesday, Trump stated that the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is, along with 65 other organizations, agencies and commissions, “contrary to the interests of the United States” and will be ditched.
The UNFCCC treaty forms the bedrock of international co-operation to deal with the climate crisis and has been agreed to by every country in the world since its inception 34 years ago. The US Senate ratified the treaty in October 1992.
Trump has, however, routinely ridiculed climate science as a “scam” and a “hoax” and has actively hobbled clean energy projects and other climate policies as president, attempting to force the US and other countries to stay wedded to the fossil fuels that are driving disastrous heatwaves, storms, droughts and conflicts that imperils billions of people around the world.
I am frustrated by the things that the MAGA movement does, led of course by Trump. But I am even more frustrated by the Americans who refuse to see the systemic failures that have made all of this possible, inevitable even. If you do not see by now that our governmental and political institutions and systems possess fatal flaws, and thus need to be changed, you’re part of the problem.
I get what you’re saying. But what are random citizens going to do when half of them are brainwashed into sucking trumps toes? Example I’m just a random mechanic in a random town and a random state. There’s nothing I could ever do
There’s nothing I can do so why even try? /s basically you’ve surrendered to fascism because you can’t be bothered to fight. This is why the world looks at the US and says all Americans are to blame. Because even the ones who say they voted democratic, are unwilling to do anything about what’s happening. Do you think when people in other countries protest and cause general strikes etc… that they don’t have to worry About those same things? Most of those people have even more to lose, like the risk of getting gunned down, but they still have the courage to fight for their rights.
Okay, so then what could I do? Please inform me
Have you never studied history in school?
So in other words, you don’t know.
Nobody is meeting climate goals.
We have blown past the 1.5C marker and will probably keep heating the planet until it kills us all.
Don’t have kids.
3 more long, long, very long years left
More outrage? How much outrage is too much? It’s been going on for a while now. I’m starting to think that all media is complicit with the new world order.
Anyone know how that works LEGALLY? If it’s ratified by the senate, I have to assume it’s not legal for the executive branch to decide unilaterally to drop it. If that’s true and there’s still someone allowed standing, that lawsuit ought to be successful
It is federal law once it’s a treaty. I believe that only Congress can change it.
Fuck you, Mercer.
At first I thought the title said “Orange as Trump”
