Elders Climate Action (@eldersclimate.bsky.social)

Press Release | USCAN Washington, D.C. – January 8, 2026 – The United States administration’s decision to withdraw from 66 international organizations, including the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and critical UN agencies and climate treaties, represents a profound retreat from global cooperation. Isolationism is a failed response to the defining challenges of our century; climate change, growing economic inequality and wealth concentration, and global health crises are existential threats that do not respect national borders and require more collaboration, not less. By abandoning these essential bodies, the administration is not only distancing itself from longstanding allies but is actively undermining the collective safety and health of people everywhere. This decision ignores the strategic reality of our world and jeopardizes the multilateral framework—which, despite its historical flaws and inequitable power dynamics, remains the only viable arena for collective action. https://www.usclimatenetwork.org/media?utm_campaign=8f33e7ef-7113-4169-b434-b6dfaff16d7a&utm_source=so&utm_medium=mail&cid=eabb6d21-af44-4111-8b91-69c5f1ca8495