President Donald Trump's withdrawal from the entire United Nations climate-fighting apparatus takes America's environmental isolation to another level and is likely to damage both the United States and the world as the planet flirts with ecological tipping points,

On Wednesday night, President Trump announced that the U.S. would be withdrawing from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), a landmark global treaty that sets a legal framework for international negotiations to address climate change.

Experts say pulling the U.S. out of more than 60 global organizations will weaken international governance structures and lead to further fragmentation of global power.

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.

ICN international climate policy reporter Bob Berwyn reviews the past decade of the United Nations Climate Change Conference.