"U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday withdrawing the United States from the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) the basis for international cooperation in the fight against global warming and the Alliance of Civilizations, created two decades ago following a proposal by Spain, as well as 64 other multilateral organizations, almost half of them linked to the United Nations."
"The reason for this withdrawal from the 31 UN entities and 35 multilateral organizations not related to the United Nations is, according to the White House, that these institutions are redundant in their scope, mismanaged, unnecessary, wasteful, poorly run, captured by the interests of actors advancing their own agendas contrary to our own, or a threat to our nation's sovereignty, freedoms, and general prosperity."
"Withdrawing from the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change would exclude the United States from international climate change negotiations. It could also strain relations with allies for whom combating global warming is a priority, at a time when Washington is boasting about the aggressiveness of its foreign policy following the military intervention in Venezuela that resulted in the arrest of President Nicolas Maduro."
The United States signed an executive order withdrawing from the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the Alliance of Civilizations, and 64 other multilateral organizations, nearly half linked to the United Nations. The White House cited redundancy, mismanagement, waste, capture by actors with opposing agendas, and threats to sovereignty, freedoms, and prosperity as reasons. Withdrawal from the UNFCCC would bar the United States from international climate negotiations and could strain relations with allies prioritizing climate action. The United States joined the UNFCCC in 1992. The convention aims to stabilize atmospheric pollution to prevent dangerous human-caused climate interference and established annual UN climate negotiation processes.
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