The groups include the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, among many others.

The United States' decision to withdraw from the United Nations' key climate treaty is a "colossal own goal" that will harm the U.S. economy, jobs and living standards, United Nations climate chief Simon Stiell said on Thursday.

That includes the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and other initiatives tackling environmental and human rights issues. “As the only country in the world not a part of the UNFCCC treaty, the Trump administration is throwing away decades of US climate change leadership and global collaboration,

We revisit a few of the environmental change-makers we met in 2025. In big and small ways, they’re trying to make a difference in their Wisconsin communities.

The climate movement took a step back nationally in 2025, with President Donald Trump reversing federal spending initiatives begun by the Biden administration. For many, these cuts were a devastating blow to their hopes for a clean energy future.

President Trump on Tuesday claimed climate change was “the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world” as he used his speech to the United Nations to bash efforts to reduce carbon emissions and move toward climate-friendly energy sources.

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The Trump administration said it’s pulling out of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Henna Hundal, delegate to UN Climate Change Conferences, joins Rahel Solomon to discuss.