In comparison to our previous assessment of Argentina’s NDC target against fair share, where we had rated the 2030 climate target as “Insufficient”, our updated method rates the same target as “Highly insufficient”. We refer to this as Argentina’s “fair share target”. We rate Argentina’s unconditional 2030 climate target from December 2020 as “Highly insufficient” when compared with its fair-share contribution to climate action.
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The full policies and action analysis can be found here. Macri announced the goal of achieving carbon neutrality by 2050. The law positioned the treatment of climate change as national policy, institutionalised the articulation of activities and responsibilities related to climate change, and established minimum financial budgets for its adequate management, including the design and implementation of mitigation and adaptation policies. In July 2019, the Macri government declared a climate emergency followed by the Senate passing a Climate Change Law in December 2019. The government also capped electricity and gas tariffs to December 2019 levels until the end of 2020. Although the new government has justified this intervention to protect jobs and the entire energy industry in the context of the COVID‑19 crisis, this measure constitutes a direct subsidy to rescue the oil and gas sector in Argentina. The government has not introduced any ‘green’ measures in its recovery stimulus plans but instead artificially fixed the domestic oil price at a minimum of USD 45 per barrel for 2020, irrespectively of the fact that international oil prices remain considerably lower. The country’s energy sector and climate change planning will be largely influenced by the ongoing developments of the pandemic, the domestic recovery measures to confront the crisis, the external risks due to the collapse of international oil prices, and the renegotiation of its foreign debt.
Argentina’s projections from policies and action will be updated in the coming months, and Argentina’s rating could change.Īrgentina faces the economic crisis induced by the COVID-19 pandemic amid an economic recession for the third consecutive year. A “Highly insufficient” rating translates to global temperature rise over 3☌ and up to 4☌ by end of the century. Argentina ’s policies and action in 2030-based on our assessment from 30 July 2020-lead to rising, rather than falling, emissions and are not at all consistent with the Paris Agreement’s 1.5☌ temperature limit. Its level remains very low.We rate Argentina’s policies and actions as “Highly insufficient”.
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The Parana River, South America's second-longest waterway after the Amazon, saw its water level last year shrivel to its shallowest since 1944, according to official data, because of several drought cycles plus less rainfall in upstream Brazil. "The combined effect just makes it worse," said Enrique Viale, one of Argentina's leading environmental lawyers. The wildfires around the major riverside port of Rosario, crucial to transporting Argentina's massive grain harvest, have triggered alarm bells among ordinary residents as well as activists already concerned with prolonged drought worsened by this year's scarce rainfall and underscoring the consequences of a warmer, drier climate. Grassland fires near a key South American river delta pose grave dangers to nearby wetland ecosystems and human health, according to environmental leaders, just a year after the water level of the once mighty Parana River dropped to its lowest point in decades.