U.S. exit from UNESCO a bad sign for COP30

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There are 26 UNESCO World Heritage Sites in the U.S. and 1,248 around the world.

The White House’s withdrawal from the United Nation’s science agency likely kills any remaining chances of the U.S. sending a meaningful delegation to the UN’s climate conference this year in Brazil.

While expected by the UN’s Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) based on the Trump administration’s hostility to other international science and climate groups, the abrupt departure from the group leaves the U.S. with little commitment left to the UN or any of its programs.

While UNESCO doesn’t run the climate conference, its mission is closely linked. The White House statement said that the U.S. is departing because the agency supports a “woke, divisive culture and social causes that are totally out of step with the commonsense policies that Americans voted for in November.”

Those policies include promoting efforts to protect the oceans and the promotion of World Heritage sites, such as the Grand Canyon and the Amazon rainforest, which spans Brazil and eight other South American countries. The lack of a significant U.S. presence at COP30 is a blow to the summit’s climate efforts as it will weaken any global agreement delegates reach to not have the U.S. involved.

But ironically, it might help organizers a bit on logistics for the summit as they are struggling to find enough hotel rooms for the tens of thousands of other delegates and press expected to attend from other countries who remain committed.

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