U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres attends a news conference during the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Belem, Brazil, on Nov. 20, 2025. Reuters/Anderson Coelho
President Donald Trump put another dent in the environmental, social, and governance (ESG) movement, withdrawing the United States from the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and 65 other international organizations dedicated to climate and social justice.
Trump’s order caps a recent trend in which many corporations have also canceled their decades-long commitments to left-wing global alliances, undermining what had been a highly influential worldwide movement that once included the world’s largest nations and companies.
