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BumRushDaShow

(165,866 posts)
Thu Jan 8, 2026, 07:37 PM Thursday

Trump directs the US to withdraw from key climate treaty

Source: The Hill

01/08/26 9:46 AM ET


The U.S. is exiting a landmark 1992 climate treaty, President Trump announced Wednesday. Trump said in a presidential memorandum that the U.S. would pull out of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), along with dozens of other international organizations.

The UNFCCC was established in a 1992 treaty and seeks global cooperation on climate change. Every country has ratified it, and leaving makes the U.S. the only country that is not part of it. The organization seeks to stabilize concentrations of greenhouse gases to a level that would prevent dangerous interference in the climate system.

The Senate ratified the treaty in 1992. Then-President George H.W. Bush said at the time that it “represents a delicate balance of many interests.” However, Trump said in his memo that being part of the UNFCCC was “contrary to the interests of the United States.”

The move is separate from the Trump administration’s withdrawal from the Paris Agreement — a global pact to try to limit the planet’s warming to less than 1.5 or 2 degrees Celsius (2.7 or 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit).

Read more: https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/5678641-trump-climate-treaty-united-nations/

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Trump directs the US to withdraw from key climate treaty (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Thursday OP
Just when you think he can't lower lower kimbutgar Thursday #1
Not that Trump gives a shit, but he can't drop a memo and negate a treaty ratified by the Senate. flashman13 Friday #2

kimbutgar

(26,826 posts)
1. Just when you think he can't lower lower
Thu Jan 8, 2026, 07:44 PM
Thursday

He goes lower than the Marianna Trench. I so despise him and his minions. He has unleashed so much hate and cruelty in the US. And I guess he hasn’t had to deal with this bad weather like the rest of us has because of global climate change.

Please karma come get him!

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