Jurist Amnesty International: US withdrawal from Paris Climate Agreement sets disturbing precedent

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The formal US withdrawal from the landmark Paris Climate Accords sets a disturbing precedent that will “instigate a race to the bottom,” Amnesty International said Tuesday.

Marta Schaaf, Amnesty’s Programme Director for Climate, ESJ, and Corporate Accountability, claimed that the move may dramatically hinder or reverse global efforts to mitigate consequences of climate change, stating:

The US withdrawal from the Paris Agreement…along with its withdrawal from other major global climate pacts, aims to dismantle the global system of cooperation on climate action. The US is one of several powerful anti-climate actors but as an influential superpower, this decision, along with acts of coercion and bullying of other countries and powerful actors to double down on fossil fuels, causes particular harm and threatens to reverse more than a decade of global climate progress under the agreement.

On his first day of his second term, President Donald Trump announced his intention to withdrawal from the agreement, in part as a symbolic gesture of his commitment to fossil fuels. At the time of Trump’s stated intention, the UN announced that it would take one year for the withdrawal to take effect.

Even though the US may no longer be a party to the Paris agreement, the International Court of Justice’s landmark 2025 Advisory Opinion confirmed that the nation still has “legal obligations to protect humanity from the worsening impacts of climate change.”

The Paris Agreement, established in 2016, aims to curb the rapid escalation and harmful impacts of global warming. It obligates nations to pursue efforts to limit the global average temperature increase to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels and to keep it below 2°C.

In October 2025, three-quarters of Europeans said they believed large companies should be held accountable for human rights and environmental violations across their global supply chains, signaling a shift toward more cautious and protective attitudes toward environmental issues. Discussing the dissonance created by the US withdrawal, Schaaf said:

US-based climate advocates and activists now find themselves on the frontlines of a fight with implications for current and future generations everywhere. Global solidarity and support to ensure accelerating momentum to address climate change has never been more urgent. Those who witness the harms caused by climate change and who can speak safely – must speak up. Other governments…must push back against all coercive efforts by the US. Ceding ground now risks losing it for years. Neither the planet nor the people living on the frontlines of proliferating unnatural disasters have that much time.

The US is the only country to withdraw from the Paris Agreement. It now joins Iran, Libya, and Yemen among nations not party to the agreement.

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