President Milley of "Argen Trump" Withdraws Delegation from Climate Summit

Javier Milei, President of Argentina, Yonhap News

Argentine President Javier Milei has ordered the withdrawal of his country's delegation attending the 29th United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP29), the British daily The Guardian reported on the 13th (local time).

Ana Lamas, the head of the Argentine delegation, told The Guardian that she received the withdrawal order from the government. She said, "I was instructed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs not to participate any longer," adding, "That's all I can say." President Milei is nicknamed the "South American Trump."

COP29 opened on the 11th in Baku, Azerbaijan, with an 11-day schedule. The Argentine delegation returned home just three days after the opening. Milei, who took office as Argentina's president last December, is a far-right politician who has declared his intention to withdraw from the Paris Agreement on climate change, calling the climate crisis a "socialist lie."

From his first day in office, he abolished the Ministry of Environment and the Ministry of Women's Rights, transferring their functions to the Presidential Secretariat. He also significantly eased environmental regulations related to forest and glacier protection, citing economic development. The Guardian reported that amid expectations that the re-election of former President Donald Trump would greatly weaken the momentum for greenhouse gas reduction under the Paris Agreement, Argentina's mid-conference withdrawal has increased concerns.

The international community pledged in the 2015 Paris Agreement to limit the global temperature rise to "1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels," but during Trump's first term, the U.S. administration withdrew from the agreement. Although the Biden administration rejoined the agreement, there are speculations that the U.S. might withdraw again if Trump is re-elected.

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