Withdraw from the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and Paris Agreement

Partially done

Printed page 709 22. Department of the Treasury

“To that end, the next conservative Administration should withdraw the U.S. from the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Paris Agreement.”

What has happened

Jan 27, 2026 Partially done
The U.S. withdrawal from the Paris Agreement took effect on 2026-01-27, one year after the depositary received the notice (U.N. depositary notification C.N.71.2025, 2025-01-27; Paris Agreement Article 28). Half the ask is delivered. The Framework Convention itself — the treaty the Senate ratified in 1992 — is still one the United States is party to; withdrawal from it was directed on 2026-01-07 but no allowlisted source shows a notice deposited or an effective date.
- CRS Report R48504, U.S. Withdrawal from the Paris Agreement: Process and Potential Effects — records the depositary notification and the 2026-01-27 effective date
  Primary Congress Jan 27, 2026
Jan 7, 2026 Attempted
After the review ordered by EO 14199, a Presidential Memorandum directed every executive department and agency to effectuate withdrawal from 66 international organizations, and listed the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change itself among the 31 U.N. entities. For U.N. entities the memorandum defines withdrawal as ceasing participation and funding 'to the extent permitted by law'; the Convention is a ratified treaty and Article 25 withdrawal takes effect a year after notice, so nothing had yet changed on this date.
- Presidential Memorandum: Withdrawing the United States from International Organizations, Conventions, and Treaties that Are Contrary to the Interests of the United States (UNFCCC listed at sec. 2(b)(xxii))
  Primary Executive branch Jan 7, 2026
- Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Withdraws the United States from International Organizations that Are Contrary to the Interests of the United States
  Primary Executive branch Jan 7, 2026
Jan 20, 2025 Attempted
Executive Order 14162 ordered the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations to submit immediate written notice of withdrawal from the Paris Agreement, to notify withdrawal from any agreement made under the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, and to cease or revoke any U.S. financial commitment under the Convention. The order withdrew from the Paris Agreement and from instruments under the Convention; it did not renounce the Convention itself, and under Article 28 the Paris notice could not take effect for a year.
- Executive Order 14162 — Putting America First in International Environmental Agreements
  Primary Executive branch Jan 20, 2025
- Putting America First In International Environmental Agreements (Executive Order 14162)
  Primary Executive branch Jan 20, 2025

Research log

What was searched, and what didn’t count as evidence

Research notes

The event date for the Paris withdrawal is the treaty effective date, 2026-01-27, not the date of EO 14162 (which asserted immediate effect) and not the date of the depositary notification (2025-01-27). CRS Report R48504, fetched as PDF from congress.gov and read with pdftotext, is the allowlisted source that carries all three dates; the underlying U.N. depositary notification C.N.71.2025 lives on treaties.un.org, which is off the allowlist and is recorded here as a lead.
The crsreports.congress.gov and congress.gov/crs-product/R48504 landing pages return HTTP 403 to automated fetches; the crs_external_products PDF path returns 200 and is what was read.
UNFCCC statements on the U.S. decision (unfccc.int/news/…) are off the allowlist — leads only. They were not needed: the whitehouse.gov memorandum names the Convention directly.
Federal Register full-text and the presidential-actions file were both searched for framework convention on climate with no hit; the White House files the action under “international environmental agreements” and “international organizations”, which is why the instrument had to be named before the grep string was chosen.

Action: withdraw
Object: U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Paris Agreement
ID: 2000