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Just days after Donald Trump announced the United States would pull out of a key climate change accord, Javier Mille’s government is considering a proposal to pull Argentina out of the Paris accord.
A final decision has not yet been made, two people familiar with the discussions said. Argentina It would make it the second country to withdraw from the treaty, which is signed by nearly 200 countries.
Senior officials have told the public that they are studying an internal memo that suggests the country was released after it withdrew negotiators from last year’s COP29 climate summit. Re-evaluate the international obligations On the area.
Civil servants were trying to dissuade Miley’s group from reneging on the deal, the people said. An Argentinian diplomat said that Miley would make the final decision and “it seems very likely that we will go.”
If the deal is agreed, it would represent a major setback for global efforts to tackle climate change. The agreement aims to keep global temperatures below 2C and ideally 1.5C above pre-industrial levels.
Argentina’s interior ministry’s environment division did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The liberal leader, who denies human-caused climate change, condemned the global environmental movement in a speech to the World Economic Forum in Davos on Thursday.
“Wokeism has twisted the basic idea of protecting the environment for human comfort into radical environmentalism where humanity is a cancer to be eradicated, and economic development is little more than a crime against nature,” he said. he said.
on Monday, Trump signed an executive order He resigned for the second time in his first term to withdraw the US from the Paris Agreement. No other country has withdrawn from the 2015 accord.
Withdrawing from the Paris Agreement would require congressional approval in Argentina, but Milley overrode Congress through a state of emergency issued during his presidency.
Last year was the hottest on record, scientists say the world is on track to meet the temperature set by the agreement.
Withdrawal could affect the EU-Mercosur trade deal concluded in December between Europe and Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay, which states that the parties can suspend the trade deal if one of the signatories leaves the Paris accord.
“Technical staff in the ministry are trying to explain that Trump can do whatever he wants, but there will be consequences for Argentina,” a diplomat said.
They also cited potential problems for Argentina’s recent bid to join the OECD, which supports environmental policy standards for members.
Critics have argued that Argentina is at risk of losing billions in international climate finance, and could be excluded from international carbon markets in the future.
Countries are expected to present revised climate plans at the Paris accord next month, although many are expected to miss the deadline.
