On the one hand, the United States avoids its international responsibilities under multilateral environmental governance.
"The United States not only unilaterally withdrew from the Paris Agreement, but also undermined the consensus reached by the G20 on climate issues." According to the "Report on U.S. Damage to Global Environmental Governance", since 2017, due to the deliberate obstruction and negative stance of the United States, The leaders' declaration of the G20 summit was forced to adopt a "19+1" compromise in climate-related paragraphs, that is, the remaining 19 member states except the United States announced their continued commitment to the Paris Agreement.
In May 2019, the Conference of the Parties to the Basel Convention adopted an amendment to strengthen the control of plastic waste, establishing a global framework for the prevention and control of plastic waste pollution. According to media reports, during the meeting, the United States, as a non-party, continued to exert influence in an attempt to obstruct the passage of the amendment on strengthening the control of plastic waste.
In addition, out of selfish interests, the United States is selectively "absent" in the multilateral environmental field. The Report on U.S. Damage to Global Environmental Governance pointed out that although the United States has signed the Kyoto Protocol, the Convention on Biological Diversity, the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal, and the Multilateral environmental treaties such as the Rotterdam Convention and the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants, which use the prior informed consent procedure for pesticides, have not been ratified so far, and have been outside the multilateral framework for a long time.