over natural resources, & onerous financial commitmts, is embarrassing & counterproductive.

As a nonparty to the treaty, the US participates only as an observer. Lacking a seat at the table, it cannot formally object to decisions, so reduces the US, which ought to be a leader in the protection of life on Earth, to a mere bit player in the face of a planetary ecological emergency. The election of Donald #Trump as president will only confirm that status." #CEIP #StewartPatrick