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The US withdrawal from the UNFCCC and the IPCC

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Guest blog: Janos Pasztor the Former Executive Director of the Carnegie Climate Governance Initiative (C2G), Former UN Assistant Secretary-General on Climate Change On the 7 th of December the United States government announced through a presidential memorandum from the White House that it would withdraw from over 60 international organizations, including many UN entities, such as the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Below are my reflections on the impact of this decision. In particular: The United States’ withdrawal from the IPCC and the UNFCCC signals a deliberate abandonment of international climate science, cooperation, and responsibility for its historical emissions, while actively promoting fossil fuels at home—thereby increasing global emissions and the risk of irreversible climate tipping points. This move undermines global climate ambition, shifts unfair burdens onto...
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Stakeholder Forum follow up to UNEA 7

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      Welcome to Stakeholder Forum for a Sustainable Future's UNEA 7 Newsletter # 3   ...
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Trusting in hope or managing disaster: UNEA 7, Human Rights and the Nobel Prizes

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Guest writer J an-Gustav Strandenaes, who worked on environment, governance, and sustainability at UNEP, UNDESA, and UN HQ, was the director of an aid/environment NGO, lectured at universities, evaluated projects, advised governments, authored books, and published numerous articles.  Originally published on the Stakeholder Forum for a Sustainable Future website here . On Wednesday, the 10th of December, in the last month of 2025, thousands of miles apart, three momentous events took place addressing a common goal: a better future for the world and its peoples. With outcomes dramatically different and ranging in content from substantiating hope in progress and in the future to managing disasters and deploring the state of the world, the conclusions would affect the future in substantive ways. That the events took place on the same day, is historically a coincidence. On that day, the Nobel prizes in Physics, Medicine, Chemistry, Economy and Literature were awarded in Stockholm, ...
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