India, Jan. 8 -- President Donald Trump signed a presidential memorandum directing the United States to withdraw from 66 international organizations and treaties, including the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

This would mean the US, world's largest historical polluter, will now withdraw completely from the global climate change mitigation agreement and scientific assessment of climate change. It also means US will not do its fair share in climate change mitigation or in providing climate finance to developing countries for energy transition, mitigation and adaptation.

"President Trump's withdrawal of the United States from the bedrock global treaty to tackle climat...