Many of the targets are United Nations-related agencies, commissions and advisory panels that focus on climate​, labor, migration and other issues.

A warming planet has opened up new shipping routes and turned Greenland into a geostrategic asset for the Trump administration.

The United States' decision to withdraw from the United Nations' key climate treaty is a "colossal own goal" that will harm the U.S. economy, jobs and living standards, United Nations climate chief Simon Stiell said on Thursday.

The groups include the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, among many others.

Former Vice President Al Gore, who served alongside of President Bill Clinton, condemned President Donald Trump's move to withdraw the U.S. from climate-related initiatives.

As President Donald Trump escalates his threats to acquire Greenland, an autonomous territory of Denmark, a NATO ally, lawmakers on Capitol Hill are reacting. Not all are obeying party lines.

Starmer had ​earlier said he stood with Denmark in its defence of Greenland, saying no one else should determine the future of the vast territory after Trump ​said he needed it for defence. (Reporting by Preetika Parashuraman in ​Bengaluru;

A man protests any potential US takeover of Greenland in front of the Greenland American Consulate - Joe Raedle Republican members of Congress have denounced Donald Trump’s “weapons-grade stupid” plan to invade Greenland.