While President-elect Donald Trump during his first term only withdrew from the Paris Agreement – and even that only formally took effect toward the end of his term – Inside EPA quoted Bracewell’s Scott Segal from the firm’s PRG Pulse 2024 Post-Election Webinar that Trump’s second administration’s approach to United Nations’ climate issues “might be even broader.
In this case it might include an attempt to force withdrawal from the underlying UN Framework Convention [on Climate Change],” Segal said.
Inside EPA noted that Segal warned on the webinar that such a step “has serious issues for US leadership in the climate space, and it may raise important constitutional and legal issues about dropping out of a treaty and what that requires in terms of Senate confirmation.”
