The U.S. leaves the UN convention on climate change and the IPCC: What does this new blow from Trump mean?

The US president attacks the foundations of multilateralism that tries to rebalance the planet’s climate by reducing the use of fossil fuels

As soon as he arrived at the White House for the second time, in January 2025, Donald Trump again ordered the United States to withdraw from the Paris Agreement, the international pact in which the countries of the world commit to jointly fight climate change. This Thursday, the US president went much further and decided to cut all ties with any global climate action, withdrawing the country, among other organizations, from two key bodies in the fight against global warming: the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). In this way, the country that has generated the most emissions that cause warming in history completely ignores the problem. A decision that is not surprising from a president who has just attacked Venezuela to take control of its oil (one of the main causes of warming), but which has important implications.

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