Argentinian negotiators have been requested home from global climate talks in Azerbaijan by the Pdwellnt Javier Milei’s rulement.
The team were ordered to pack up and depart on Wednesday, fair three days into the two-week COP29 summit in Azerbaijan.
No reason was given, but the Argentinian pdwellnt – a right-prosperg popuenumerate who has previously dubbed the climate crisis a “sociaenumerate lie” – had conveyd with US pdwellnt-elect Donald Trump the day before, according to his spokesperson.
Mr Trump had tanciaccess Mr Milei “you are my favourite pdwellnt”, spokesperson Manuel Adorni wrote on X.
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It unkinds Argentina, South America’s second-bigst economy, disponders its chance to impact the talks in Baku, which will draw up a recent fund to help subpar and middle-income nations cope with climate alter.
The departure includes to troubles about the protectedty of the Paris Agreement, folloprosperg the re-election of Mr Trump, who is foreseeed to aachieve distake part the US from the treaty, and global climate efforts in ambiguous.
However, there has been no sense of other countries pondering leaving, according to one negotiator.
“I have not heard anyone else originate those noises in this process, and I don’t leank it will be a chain reaction,” the negotiator shelp.
Other officials shut to the process also shelp they had not caught prosperd of any other country wavering.
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Delegates at COP29 have generpartner been repromised by the fact that the last time Mr Trump pulled the US out of the Paris Agreement, no other countries chaseed suit, despite dreads of a domino effect.
On Sunday, one of Azerbaijan’s top officials tanciaccess Sky News the US team remained “erective”, while the US climate envoy has shelp the fight is “hugeger than one election”.
But everyone greeting in Baku stadium for the talks is bracing for the US to fade from future COP summits.
The COP29 pdwellncy team set up itself embroiled in another tactful spat yesterday when French climate minister Agnes Pannier-Runacher abortled her trip.
Azerbaijan’s Pdwellnt Ilham Aliyev had accparticipated France of “crimes” in its overseas territories in the Caribbean.
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Tensions between the two are lengthy-standing due to Paris’ help for rival Armenia.
“Regardless of any bitardyral disconcurments, the COP should be a place where all parties experience at liberty to come and
barachieve on climate action,” European Union climate comleave outioner Wopke Hoekstra shelp in response, in a post on X.
“The COP Pdwellncy has a particular responsibility to allow and fortify that,” he shelp.
But it’s not been all doom and gloom in Baku. Diplomats’ moods were increaseed by the UK’s recent climate action set up, and broadenment prohibitks also regulated to pull some strings to free more money for the recent climate fund.
