Full list as Trump announces US will leave 66 key organizations
U.S. President Donald Trump announced on Wednesday that the United States would withdraw from dozens of international and United Nations entities, claiming they "operate contrary to U.S. national interests."
The decision targets 35 non-UN groups and 31 UN entities, including a crucial climate treaty and a UN body promoting gender equality and women's empowerment. Among these is the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, widely considered the "bedrock" climate treaty and parent agreement to the 2015 Paris climate deal.
Nobody paying attention is surprised. Presumably these 'key organisations' will have been identified as bureaucratic money swamps or worse and the US is no longer keen on funding them. Good, here in the UK we should do the same, but we won't.
To take just one example, we've known for decades that the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change is not worth funding, but there are many others such as the NRDC, another outfit playing the global climate game.
"The United States would be the first country to walk away from the UNFCCC," said Manish Bapna, president and CEO of the Natural Resources Defense Council.
"The United States would be the first country to walk away from the UNFCCC," said Manish Bapna, president and CEO of the Natural Resources Defense Council.
4 comments:
Every now and again (usually just before Christmas) I tidy away all the bits and pieces that build up and litter my computer desk. Only the key items, used daily, remain. I always appreciate the reclaimed space...
Perhaps Trump has decided that he is tidying 'his desk' to eliminate the trivial bits and pieces of bureaucracy that have built up but provide no benefit beyond providing employment for more and more bureaucrats? Maybe his recent actions seem so direct because others are still knee deep (neck deep) in the trivia that distracts attention?
DJ - that's a useful way to look at it. I believe Trump has the reputation of being a clear desk manager but bureaucracies fail to identify bureaucratic junk as junk. Useless committees, processes, documentation and so on, rarely cleared out merely because they are useless.
Opponents will just virtue-signal the ideology of course. "Thant's not junk, we need that."
I think that to be shot at - twice - has concentraited his mind. He knew that he had only four years to "drain the swamp"..
First year - sort immediate problems, plenty of Executive orders.
Second year - Having found the plughole, he pulls it out with a big effort. More to come - watch out pond life.
DAD - I agree, it has concentrated his mind. He's exposing the extent of the rot with enormous energy, but the US will probably struggle to stop the rot returning once Trump has gone.
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