Argentina withdraws delegates from climate summit as Milei heads for Mar-a-Lago

Argentine delegates at the COP29 United Nations climate summit in Baku, Azerbaijan, have been ordered to withdraw from negotiations and return home, according to a source at the country’s foreign ministry.

Argentine delegates at the COP29 United Nations climate summit in Baku, Azerbaijan, have been ordered to withdraw from negotiations and return home, according to a source at the country’s foreign ministry. The delegates took part in the first two days of the summit, which began on Monday, but were ordered to withdraw Wednesday by the ministry, the source told CNN en Español. A group of delegates who were scheduled to travel to Baku on Wednesday were also ordered not to travel, said the source, who asked to remain anonymous as they were not authorized to speak on the record about the matter. The move compounds a sense of anxiety that has been hanging over the talks since Donald Trump’s win in the US presidential election last week. Trump has vowed to once again pull the US out of the Paris Agreement, which binds most of the world to try and keep global warming – caused primarily by humans burning fossil fuels – below 1.5 degrees Celsius. As the Biden administration winds down, it is racing to send climate and environment funds to states and buttoning up last-minute regulations aimed at protecting the planet, one of its top climate officials said Monday. “We still have plenty of work to do, and we have around 72 days, I think, to get it done,” said John Podesta, a senior White House adviser on clean energy who is also leading the US delegation at the UN climate conference in Baku, Azerbaijan.