Argentina’s New President Javier Milei Immediately Backtracks On Campaign Promises, Commits To Paris Climate Agreement

It appears it will be more of the same in Argentina, after the newly elected President Javier Milei has signaled that he is already breaking his campaign promises that made him so favorable among citizens who were tired of the status quo and same-old. Milei’s administration will reportedly continue to be apart of the Paris Climate Agreement, along with a number of core issues Milei ran on that appears to be going by the wayside.

On the campaign trail Milei has previously said,

All these politicians who blame the human race for climate change are fake and are only looking to raise money to finance socialist bums who write fourth-rate newspapers.

According to the United Nations, the overarching goal of the Paris Climate Agreement is this: ‘Its overarching goal is to hold “the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels” and pursue efforts “to limit the temperature increase to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels.’

The tenured climate diplomat for Argentina, Marcia Levaggi, confirmed to Reuters that the Milil administration will not be reneging on the country’s precious agreements. She flew to COP28 in Dubai on Sunday, during Milei’s inauguration, to make it clear to world partners that Argentina was still going to be apart of the Agreement.

Reuters reported:

This is why I came to this COP, to reassure our party stakeholders and people following the process that Argentina will stay committed to the Paris Agreement. We will honour all our environmental agreements.

Milei is a liberal, he’s a libertarian, and he believes in market forces. And the market demands to include measures to address climate change.

Levaggi said.

Argentina will also keep its commitment to reach net zero emissions by 2050, she said…