United Nations agencies reacted with dismay on Monday and Tuesday following President Donald Trump issuing executive orders on Monday night withdrawing America from the Paris Climate Agreement and the World Health Organization (W.H.O.).
Trump, who became president for a second term on Monday, had withdrawn the United States from both the world’s most powerful public health agency and the globalist climate deal during his first term, exiting the W.H.O. in the aftermath of its disastrous handling of the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic in 2020. Trump withdrew from the Paris agreement in 2019, condemning the disproportionate commitments demanded of its signatories, requiring much more financial investment and many more limits on economic development from America than the world’s worst polluters, such as China and India.
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