Annhattan<p>over natural resources, &amp; onerous financial commitmts, is embarrassing &amp; counterproductive. </p><p>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 <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Trump</span></a> as president will only confirm that status.&quot; <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/CEIP" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CEIP</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/StewartPatrick" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>StewartPatrick</span></a></p>