The Trump administration has formally notified the U.N. that it’s withdrawing from the world’s bedrock climate treaty, beginning a one-year countdown for the United States’ unprecedented exit from the Framework Convention on Climate Change.
The 1992 treaty, known as the UNFCCC, serves as the foundation for global efforts to tackle global warming including the Paris Agreement. The U.S. finalized its withdrawal from the 2015 agreement in January.
U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres indicated Friday that the U.N. Treaty Collection had received the United States’ formal notice announcing its departure from the UNFCCC, according to a letter uploaded to its website.
It states that the withdrawal would take effect on Feb. 27, 2027, a year from the notification, as required by the terms of the treaty.
