Ledger · 2016 campaign · № 45
Cancel all U.S. payments to U.N. climate programs
Partial“[paraphrase] We're going to cancel billions in global warming payments to the United Nations.”
- Promised
- , Energy policy speech, Bismarck, North Dakota
- Stated deadline
- “within 100 days” → September 3, 2016
- Overdue by
- 10 years as of September 22, 2026
- Re-promised
- 4 times with a fresh deadline
- Topic
- Energy & environment
- Era
- 2016 campaign
What happened
The administration withheld the remaining $2 billion pledged to the Green Climate Fund and began Paris Agreement withdrawal, effective November 4, 2020, but continued other U.N. climate-related contributions. PolitiFact rated the promise a compromise, finding spending lower than under Obama but still significant.