1992 UN Framework: Trump's allies still waiting for him to land his hardest climate blow

Source: Politico

Trump’s allies still waiting for him to land his hardest climate blow

The president has yet to announce his plans for the 1992 Senate-ratified treaty that underlies the world’s efforts to counter global warming.

By Sara Schonhardt
09/23/2025 05:00 AM EDT

President Donald Trump has spent months trying to weaken global institutions at the center of tackling climate change.

But as he steps up to the United Nations’ dais Tuesday, he still hasn’t announced his plans for perhaps the most pivotal climate pact of all.

The annual meeting of the U.N. General Assembly in New York comes more than a month after Trump’s deadline for his State Department to identify international organizations and agreements that the U.S. should quit, defund or overhaul. Some of his allies hope he will follow through by pulling out of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, a move that could fundamentally reshape international efforts to counter the rise of planet-warming greenhouse gases.

The 1992 treaty, negotiated during the presidency of George H.W. Bush, serves as the international structure for efforts by the U.S. and 197 other countries to slow the rise of greenhouse gases. It’s also the underlying framework for the 2015 Paris climate agreement, which Trump moved to abandon on his first day in office.

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