Overview
- The directive includes withdrawing from the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and leaving the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, reshaping U.S. involvement in global climate policy and science.
- Federal agencies were told to begin ending participation or funding across 66 entities, including 31 UN‑affiliated bodies and 35 outside the UN system.
- The list reaches beyond climate to UNFPA, migration and counterterrorism forums, renewable‑energy platforms such as IRENA and the International Solar Alliance, and legal bodies including the IRMCT and the Venice Commission.
- EU climate commissioner Wopke Hoekstra condemned the UNFCCC exit as “deplorable and unfortunate,” while the administration argued these institutions erode U.S. sovereignty and waste taxpayer money.
- Most withdrawals require formal notification and waiting periods of roughly a year, with unresolved court-tested authority on exits from instruments previously approved by Congress.