Argentine environmental negotiator loses his post

Argentine diplomat Raúl Estrada Oyuela, a much-praised protagonist in the talks that birthed the Kyoto climate-change agreement, was removed from his post as the Argentine Foreign Ministry’s environmental-affairs representative last month, two days after declaring that his country “has no environmental policy.” Oyuela, who in 1997 presided over the international meeting that produced the Kyoto Protocol and was described by a U.S. negotiator as a “grandmaster of diplomacy and the godfather of Kyoto,” made the remark during a Sept. 19 conference at the United Nations office in Buenos Aires. He also said Argentina urgently must adopt strategies aimed at adapting to climate change. Since his dismissal, Oyuela has continued to speak out. He recently faulted the national government for not intervening in... [Log in to read more]

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