Argentina withdrew its negotiating team from the COP29 climate change summit in Baku, Azerbaijan on Wednesday, the third day of the meeting.
“That's true. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has instructed you not to participate in the future. That's all I can tell you.” said Argentina's Environment Undersecretary Ana María Vidal de Lamas is the country's most senior representative at the conference.
of Buenos Aires Herald reported “At least three government representatives from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Tourism have been given a 'non-negotiable' order to cease all activities and return to Argentina.”
“The officials in question were not allowed to take part in the summit discussions for the previous two days. A delegation from the Argentine provinces was allowed to remain in Baku.” . Buenos Aires Herald Added.
Lamas said the government has not made any decision to withdraw from the Paris climate accord, following the wishes of President-elect Donald Trump. widely expected To. President Trump withdrew the United States from the 2015 accord during his first term, but his successor, President Joe Biden, pledged to rejoin the accord in February 2021.
Milley is an admirer of President Trump, a skeptic of climate alarmism and a liberal committed to rolling back burdensome regulations and government spending to stimulate Argentina's economy.
“Interestingly, Argentina's withdrawal from the summit came a day after Milley met with Trump. A spokesperson for the Argentine president said Trump told Milley that he was his “favourite president.'' said Firstpost. noticed.
Millay is schedule He is scheduled to visit the United States this week to meet with President Trump. He was one of the first world leaders to congratulate Trump on his “terrible electoral victory” on November 5th. He then sent his “congratulations” to Trump, urged him to “make America great again,” and posted an AI-generated photo of Trump. Embracing the lion that symbolizes Millais.
“There are temperature cycles in the history of the earth,” says Millais. said During a presidential debate in Argentina in October. “We are not going to adhere to the 2030 Agenda. We are not going to adhere to cultural Marxism. We are not going to adhere to decadence.”
of 2030 Agenda This is a list of tough social, economic and climate goals promoted by the United Nations in 2015. No major developed country comes close to achieving that goal. the latest from the united nations report The agenda said progress towards half of the 140 targets was “weak and insufficient”, and about a third of them were completely stalled or reversed.
Millay dissolved Established several expensive ministries immediately after taking office, including the Ministry of Women, Gender and Diversity. Ministry of Culture. Ministry of Social Development. The functions of the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development are: absorbed Enter the Ministry of Interior. this decreased The chief environmental officer has been promoted to the position of deputy secretary, a position Mr Rama currently holds.
Since then, Millais has been on the fence about whether to withdraw completely from the Paris climate accord. In December, Marcia Levaggi, who was newly appointed as a “climate diplomat,” said Argentina will “maintain its commitment to the Paris Agreement” and “respect all environmental agreements,” including the goal of achieving “net-zero” carbon emissions by 2050.
“Millay is a liberal, he's a libertarian, he believes in the power of the market, and the market demands that climate action be included,” Levazzi said of his new boss. Levage is the current Deputy Minister of Foreign Policy, Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Climate change activists are angry and disappointed by Argentina's withdrawal from COP29. Climate management expert Carla Chavarria warned that Argentina risks “losing its voice in the climate finance negotiations” that are the focus of the conference.
“At a critical moment in securing resources against the climate crisis, the country is being left behind, weakening its future and its ability to adapt,” she complained.
An Argentine group called the Citizens Association for Human Rights said it was “sad” to see the departure of a delegation from Buenos Aires, which had been “participating with Argentine representatives in the negotiating group on the gender program of the Climate Change Convention”. It didn't seem to occur to them that Millais might not have taken COP29 as seriously because it had a “gender program” on climate change.
Climate activists also seem to have overlooked that the overly politicized nature of the climate change debate may have provoked Millay's ire.
President Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan, the host of COP29, said: kicked off He opened the event by dedicating part of his keynote speech to climate change activists urging them to stop complaining about their country's valuable oil and gas industry. handrail Opposed to France's “neo-colonialism”.
French Environment Minister Agnès Pannier-Runacher responded: draw out It said Aliyev's speech was “deplorable” and condemned it as a “clear violation of the norms of conduct” in UN climate change talks. However, the remaining players of the French team remained in Baku.
On Wednesday, Iranian Vice President Shina Ansari said: hijacked Climate conference calls for easing sanctions on governments that support terrorism. Mr. Ansari also blamed the West for climate change, but did not suggest that his own petrostate might compromise its oil production goals to satisfy climate change activists.
