Under pressure: How Donald Trump's attacks on US climate agencies affect India
Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. ‘Climate Change & You’ is a fortnightly newsletter by Bibek Bhattacharya and Sayantan Bera. Subscribe to Mint's newsletters to get them directly in your email inbox. Dear reader, One of the first things that Donald Trump did when he became president was to withdraw the US from the 2015 Paris climate agreement.
This will come into formal effect on 27 January 2026, when the US will join Libya, Iran and Yemen as the only countries that do not recognize the agreement. As we’ve written before, this was not unexpected, since Trump had done the same in his first term. What is different this time is the fact that the Trump administration seems to want to make this a clean break from any climate change responsibilities, i.e.
withdraw from the UN international treaty that oversees the global effort to minimize climate change. While the Trump administration hasn’t yet made any announcement about leaving the UNFCCC (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change), it seems to be acting as if it has. According to reports this past month, US officials have not been attending international climate forums that meet and work through the year.
The buzz is that the Trump administration has withdrawn the US from the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) process to decide on the latest global climate science reports. The climate body’s latest meeting in China reportedly didn’t have any US scientists present. While there is some ambiguity here, what the Trump administration is definitely doing is gutting the US’ premier climate agency, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa).
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