The US has withdrawn from 66 groups including the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), many of which are working to combat climate change.

President Trump said that it was contrary to the interests of the US to remain a member, participate or support the organisations.

The decision marks a further distancing of the US from global actions to challenge global warming and other social and political issues. From the White House view, several of the 66 organisations effectively take stances critical or even hostile to the US, with the unwritten implications that they are funded or guided by countries or factions that are engaged in a ‘soft war’ on the US. A view that the organisation wo9uyld surely disavow with considerable vigour.

In addition, the US is none-the-less often a major contributor to funding supranational organisation, and may feel it is at best wasteful, and at worst actively funding its own criticism.

Last year, Trump withdrew from the Paris Agreement and the US did not send a delegation to COP30.

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