Key Points
This disengagement by the South American nation under the climate change-denialist president Javier Milei has now raised concerns over the stability of the 2015 Paris Accords, which are already on shaky grounds after the re-election of Donald Trump as the US President...
Argentina has over 80 representatives at the climate summit in Baku...
Despite the reassurance, experts were concerned that Argentinas exit from the climate summit was indicative of the uncertain future of the Paris Agreement, which was already hanging by a thread after the re-election of Donald Trump as the US president last week...
Argentinian-origin expert Anabella Rosemberg, a senior advisor at the Climate Action Network International, said in a statement Wednesday that it was difficult to understand how a climate-vulnerable country like Argentina would cut itself from critical support being negotiated here at COP29...
So, it is largely symbolic, and all it does is remove the country from critical conversations going on climate finance, Rosemberg said.. COP29 has already begun on an uncertain note after Trump was re-elected as the president of the US..
