By Thebe Mabanga
United States President Donald Trump has withdrawn his country’s participation and funding from more than 60 international bodies, about half of them within the United Nations system, including the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, the Paris Agreement, and UN University.
Outside the UN, Trump has cut funding to organisations focused on climate change and renewable energy—as widely expected—but also to bodies dealing with cybersecurity, piracy, and democratic governance, including the Venice Commission of the Council of Europe.
The withdrawals follow a review Trump ordered in February last year, conducted by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and are outlined in a memorandum released on Wednesday titled “Withdrawing the United States from International Organisations, Treaties and Conventions that are Contrary to the Interests of the United States.”
At the start of his second term in January last year, Trump also pulled the United States out of the World
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