The Undersecretary of Environment of the Nation, Ana Lamas, confirmed her resignation after having held the position responsible for the environmental area since December 2023, when President Javier Milei took office.
According to reports, Lamas gave as reasons for her resignation "personal" issues and "exhaustion," which were not related to her performance in the position. In recent days, she was criticized because the undersecretariat she led allocated public resources for the maintenance of air conditioning units in her offices and requested funds to eliminate a rat infestation in her premises, according to a document published on February 4, 2025.
The criticism arose because Lamas was reproached for not prioritizing the resolution of the wildfires that have continued for weeks in the south of the country, instead of allocating the budget to other needs. In the last two months of the previous year, the former official had to withdraw from the United Nations Conference on Climate Change (COP29) in Baku, Azerbaijan, at the order of President Milei and through Chancellor Gerardo Werthein.
At that time, Lamas confirmed that they were withdrawing from the conference by instructions from the foreign service. The National Government decided to distance itself from the United Nations Pact for the Future, which criticizes the 2030 Agenda. Lamas had previously stated that Milei believed that climate change is not entirely caused by human activities. Milei withdrew his delegation from COP29 in Azerbaijan in rejection of the '2030 agenda'.
