Which international organizations or agreements will the United States leave before 2029?

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2029

99%

Paris Climate Agreement

98%

World Health Organization (WHO)

80%

United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC)

76%

United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA)

66%

World Trade Organization (WTO)

50%

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)

50%

International Labour Organization (ILO)

50%

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

50%

Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

39%

World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)

31%

World Bank

31%

International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)

31%

International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO)

26%

International Monetary Fund (IMF)

14%

North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

13%

United Nations (UN)

Which international organizations will the United States leave before 2029? The United States has to actually leave according to the organization, not just say that they will leave or make plans to leave.

For the UNRWA option, resolves based on leaving the UNRWA Advisory Committee (AdCom).

For the World Bank option, resolves based on leaving the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD).

Update 2025-22-01 (PST): - Notice period: A twelve-month notice period is required before the United States officially leaves an organization. (AI summary of creator comment)

Update 2025-24-01 (PST): - Resolution for United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC): Currently set to resolve as N/A pending further research. (AI summary of creator comment)

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@Gabrielle this one is not like the others. While e.g. UNESCO is part of the UN system, it is a separate organization, which the US can join and leave separately from the rest by signing or withdrawing from a treaty.

The UNHRC is an organ within the UN proper. Its members are elected by the UN General Assembly for three-year terms, and no country can have more than two consecutive terms. So there must have been times when the US was not in the Council already.

Maybe this could resolve as "the US does not present as candidate when the relevant time comes", but that's harder to verify than leaving a treaty.

@BrunoParga Dangit, I thought I had checked every option to make sure they were things that the US could leave, but I must have missed this one.

I’ll likely resolve it as N/A, but since there’s no rush I’ll take some time to research it and see if there’s a reasonable interpretation.

Thanks for the callout!

withdrawing from the ICAO would cause all sorts of random issues

There's probably a lot of upcoming standards surrounding drones and personal VTOL etc that will be defined in the next few years. Better to be a rule maker than a rule taker.

@MalachiteEagle Trump's a rule breaker.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-signs-executive-withdrawing-world-health-organization-2025-01-21/

@AlexeiPotter It's a twelve month notice period, so it doesn't resolve yet, but it is extremely likely in my opinion.

While the order says U.S. withdrawal will be effective "immediately" once notice is given, the Paris Agreement itself stipulates that the process takes a full year.

https://www.npr.org/2025/01/21/nx-s1-5266207/trump-paris-agreement-biden-climate-change

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