French President Emmanuel Macron will stress the importance of international action on climate change at talks Saturday with his right-wing Argentine counterpart Javier Milei who pulled his country out of the COP29 climate talks.
Argentina’s climate skeptic president, a fervent admirer of Donald Trump, caused fears for the future of the 2015 Paris accord on global warming this week after pulling his country from a climate change conference underway in Azerbaijan.
The snub came a day before Milei met Trump at his Mar-a-Lago resort, the first foreign leader to visit the Republican since his reelection which Milei hailed as “the greatest political comeback in history.”
Argentina’s rejection of the talks sparked fears it could walk away from the landmark 2015 Paris deal on slashing emissions, as Trump did during his first presidential term.
Macron, a passionate defender of multilateralism, will attempt to convince Milei to continue to back “the international …