# @centerforbiodiv on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DTQgLDciSVs
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/38686442-centerforbiodiv-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2026-01-08T17:20:16.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Center for Biological Diversity (@CenterForBioDiv) — https://gondola.cc/CenterForBioDiv

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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 agreement for nearly 200 countries to coordinate international efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions to prevent human-caused climate change. It was the launchpad for the Paris Agreement in 2015. The U.S. Senate approved President George H.W. Bush’s signing of the UNFCCC in 1992 in Rio de Janeiro, allowing the U.S. to ratify the treaty.

The UNFCCC withdrawal comes one year after Trump’s notification of withdrawal from the Paris Agreement, which committed parties to limit warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius and submit national plans to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in service of this goal. 

Trump’s action also withdraws the U.S. from scientific bodies that play critically important roles in protecting the world’s climate and biodiversity.

“Withdrawing from the world’s leading climate, biodiversity and scientific institutions threatens all life on Earth,” said Su.

Read our full press release by going to the link in our bio and selecting this post. 

[Image description: At the Maple Fire, trees torch in the foreground while a burn mosaic is visible in the background.]

#ClimateCrisis #UNFCCC #UnitedNationsFrameworkConventionOnClimateChange

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