She outlines the US position and what the withdrawal means.

As a practical matter, the US has kind of been acting de facto like a non-party since the beginning of the second Trump administration.

They didn't send a delegation to COP30 or to the, even to the subsidiary body meetings in Bonn about a year ago.

They also stopped implementing their obligations under, uh, the agreements, including, you know, not submitting a report that was due about a year ago.

So already we're kind of living in the world of US non, uh, participation, which, you know, it's quite a contrast from the first Trump administration.

I, I would say broadly speaking, and just with respect to the COP, but multilateral climate cooperation in general, it's definitely had a negative effect.

I mean, climate has not even been a, uh, permissible topic at the G7 and the G20, for example.

Biniaz agrees and highlights that while the US has never been historically reliable on the climate, the current situation seems more serious.