BREAKING NEWS 🚨 President Donald Trump just announced that he is withdrawing the United States from the world’s foundational climate treaty, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, or UNFCCC. He also pulled out of dozens of other global environmental agreements and bodies, including the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services. “Trump cutting ties with the world’s oldest climate treaty is another despicable effort to let corporate fossil fuel interests run our government,” said Jean Su, energy justice director at the Center for Biological Diversity. “It’s foolish and downright deadly for Trump to turn his back on the climate devastation ripping across the U.S. and the world. Pulling out of this Senate-approved climate pact and dozens of other treaties is Trump’s latest illegal executive overreach.” Passed in 1992, the UNFCCC established the first global framework agreemen...