President Donald Trump is withdrawing the United States from a foundational climate treaty as part of a sweeping exit from collective global action, the White House announced Wednesday. Exiting the underlying treaty could introduce additional legal uncertainty around any future US effort to rejoin. “We are looking at legal options to pursue that line of argument.”“The US withdrawal from the UN climate framework is a heavy blow to global climate action, fracturing hard-won consensus,” Li Shuo of the Asia Society Policy Institute told AFP. As in his first term, Trump has also withdrawn the United States from the Paris Agreement and from Unesco -- the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization -- which Washington had rejoined under Biden. Speaking before the General Assembly in September, Trump delivered a scathing broadside against the world body founded in 1945 to promote global peace and cooperation in the wake of the Second World War.

Source: Dhaka Tribune January 08, 2026 11:21 UTC