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WASHINGTON — <\/span>The Trump administration will withdraw from dozens of international organizations, including the U.N.’s population agency and the U.N. treaty that establishes international climate negotiations, as the U.S. further retreats from global cooperation<\/a>.<\/p>\n President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed an executive order suspending U.S. support for 66 organizations, agencies and commissions following his instructions for his administration to review participation in and funding for all international organizations, including those affiliated with the United Nations, according to a White House statement on social media. <\/p>\n Most of the targets are U.N.-related agencies, commissions and advisory panels that focus on climate, labor and other issues that the Trump administration has categorized as catering to diversity and \u201cwoke\u201d initiatives.<\/p>\n \u201cThe Trump Administration has found these institutions to be redundant in their scope, mismanaged, unnecessary, wasteful, poorly run, captured by the interests of actors advancing their own agendas contrary to our own, or a threat to our nation\u2019s sovereignty, freedoms, and general prosperity,\u201d the State Department said in a statement.<\/p>\n Trump’s decision to withdraw from organizations that foster cooperation among nations to address global challenges comes as his administration has launched military efforts or issued threats that have rattled allies and adversaries alike, including capturing autocratic Venezuelan leader Nicol\u00e1s Maduro<\/a> and indicating an intention to take over Greenland<\/a>.<\/p>\n The administration previously suspended support from agencies like the World Health Organization<\/a>, the U.N. for Palestinian refugees known as UNRWA, the U.N. Human Rights Council and the U.N. cultural agency UNESCO<\/a> as it has taken a larger, a-la-carte approach to paying its dues to the world body, picking which operations and agencies<\/a> they believe align with Trump\u2019s agenda and those which no longer serve U.S. interests<\/a>. <\/p>\n \u201cI think what we\u2019re seeing is the crystallization of the U.S. approach to multilateralism, which is \u2018my way or the highway,\u2019\u201d Daniel Forti, senior U.N. analyst at the International Crisis Group, said. \u201cIt’s a very clear vision of wanting international cooperation on Washington\u2019s own terms.\u201d <\/p>\n It has marked a major shift from how previous administrations \u2014 both Republican and Democratic \u2014 have dealt with the U.N., and it has forced the world body, already undergoing its own internal reckoning<\/a>, to respond with a series of staffing and program cuts<\/a>. <\/p>\n Many independent nongovernmental agencies \u2014 some that work with the United Nations \u2014 have cited many project closures<\/a> because of the U.S. administration\u2019s decision last year to slash foreign assistance through the U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID.<\/p>\n Despite the massive shift, the U.S. officials, including Trump himself, say they have seen the potential of the U.N. and want to instead focus taxpayer money on expanding American influence in many of the standard-setting U.N. initiatives where there is competition with China, like the International Telecommunications Union, the International Maritime Organization and the International Labor Organization.<\/p>\n The withdrawal from the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, or UNFCCC<\/a>, is the latest effort by Trump and his allies to distance the U.S. from international organizations focused on climate and addressing climate change. <\/p>\n UNFCC, the 1992 agreement between 198 countries to financially support climate change activities in developing countries, is the underlying treaty for the landmark Paris climate agreement. Trump \u2014 who calls climate change a hoax \u2014 withdrew from that agreement soon after reclaiming the White House.<\/p>\n Mainstream scientists say climate change is behind increasing instances<\/a> of deadly and costly<\/a> extreme weather, including flooding, droughts, wildfires<\/a>, intense rainfall events<\/a> and dangerous heat<\/a>.<\/p>\n The U.S. withdrawal could hinder global efforts to curb greenhouse gases because it \u201cgives other nations the excuse to delay their own actions and commitments,\u201d said Stanford University climate scientist Rob Jackson, who chairs the Global Carbon Project, a group of scientists that tracks countries\u2019 carbon dioxide emissions.<\/p>\n It also will be difficult to achieve meaningful progress on climate change without cooperation from the U.S., one of the world\u2019s largest emitters and economies, experts said. <\/p>\n The U.N.’s population agency, which provides sexual and reproductive health across the world, has long been a lightning rod for Republican opposition and Trump himself cut funding for the agency during his first term in office. He and other GOP officials have accused the agency of participating in \u201ccoercive abortion practices\u201d in countries like China. <\/p>\n When President Joe Biden took office in January 2021, he restored funding for the agency. A State Department review conducted the following year found no evidence to support these claims. <\/p>\n Other organizations and agencies that the U.S. will quit include the Carbon Free Energy Compact, the United Nations University, the International Cotton Advisory Committee, the International Tropical Timber Organization, the Partnership for Atlantic Cooperation, the Pan-American Institute for Geography and History, the International Federation of Arts Councils and Culture Agencies and the International Lead and Zinc Study Group.<\/p>\n The State Department said additional reviews are ongoing. <\/p>\n ___<\/p>\n Amiri reported from the United Nations. Associated Press writer Tammy Webber reported from Fenton, Michigan.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n