Javier Milei believes that “all those policies that blame humans for climate change are false and seek to raise funds to finance vague socialists,” as he said during . His conviction was reflected this Wednesday in the decision to withdraw the Argentine delegation that was participating in the . The UN climate summit is taking place in Baku, Azerbaijan, and its central debate is the financing of the Paris Agreement to combat global warming.
Officials from the Foreign Ministry and the Undersecretary of Environment of Argentina were at the summit since its beginning, last Monday. Without attracting attention, they had intervened in the Southern Group and the Group of 77 plus China, and had even presented a document with the national position. “The Argentine Republic rejects the imposition of regulations and prohibitions promoted precisely by the countries that developed thanks to doing the same thing that they question today,” indicates the text presented, which also advances that the country will object “any attempt to impose obligations that violate ” against national needs for economic development.
Although the proposal seems to follow the ideas held by the Executive, Milei nevertheless resolved the early return of the official representatives. The national undersecretary of the Environment, Ana Lamas, confirmed that “the delegation returns to the country” and that, for the moment, the measure does not imply that Argentina leaves the Paris Agreement—the United Nations agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. greenhouse in order to avoid the increase in global temperature.
“It’s a nonsense,” considered sources from the Foreign Ministry, where confusion reigned after Milei’s decision was known. Although the reasons for the withdrawal of the Argentine representatives were not reported, the measure is framed in a critical context for Foreign Relations personnel. The portfolio has just changed command, after Argentina voted in the United Nations Assembly against the United States blockade of Cuba, contrary to the total alignment with the United States that Milei intends. That vote cost Foreign Minister Diana Mondino her job, replaced ten days ago by former ambassador to Washington Gerardo Werthein. Along with the dismissal of Mondino, Milei branded diplomats who do not respect his premises as “traitors to the Homeland” and announced .
Countries present at COP 29 debate how to move forward with the implementation and financing of the Paris Agreement. In 2016, Argentina ratified, during the Government of the conservative Mauricio Macri, the commitment to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 15% between 2020 and 2030. Then, under the Government of the Peronist Alberto Fernández, it increased the bet and committed to reduce emissions by 26%. Until last year, Argentina considered the fight against climate change “a state policy.”
Like the re-elected president of the United States, Donald Trump, who during his previous term withdrew the North American power from the Paris Agreement, Milei disbelieves in climate change. “They maintain that human beings damage the planet and that it must be protected at all costs,” he questioned last January, during the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. “The cruelest thing about the environmental agenda,” Milei said, “is that rich countries, which became rich by legitimately exploiting their natural resources, now seek to atone for their guilt by punishing poorer countries and preventing them from developing their economies for an alleged crime.” which they did not commit.” Milei plans to travel to the United States in the next few hours to participate in a meeting of the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), where he hopes to meet with Trump.
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