Topic: 2025 – Impact of Climate Change on Air Quality
Country: Argentina
Delegate Name: Margaret Leahy
Country: Argentina
Delegate: Meg Leahy
School: Williamston High School
Committee: UNEP
Topic: Impact of Climate Change On Air Quality
Air quality has had a huge impact on climate change, globally. For example, in 2024, about 39 percent of the population lived in areas where they were exposed to unhealthy air pollution levels. Also, the World Meteorological Organization called attention to wildfires that are driven by climate change and are big contributors to global air pollution. These fires have been even impacting places like the Amazon, Canada, Siberia, and Central Africa. Additionally, the United States Environmental Protection Agency said that the ten warmest years have occurred in the past decade. Temperatures are expected to continue rising too with hot and sunny days increasing the amount of ozone at ground level. This urges the need to tackle climate change as a safety issue to public health and wellbeing.
Argentina acknowledges that climate change is making air quality worse. To combat this, Argentina has joined the Climate and Clean Air Coalition in 2018 to limit carbon emissions, especially from vehicles. Moreover, the World Bank claims that air pollution is becoming a problem, especially in city areas. Some initiatives for Argentina include switching from gasoline vehicles to electric cars, better air quality monitoring, and emission targets for the future. Furthermore, Argentina created a National Cabinet of Climate Change for sectors of forestry, energy, and transportation to inform the Nationally Determined Contribution to be submitted to the Paris Agreement. This NDC is ensured to be reliable and is a widely supported national strategy.
Lastly, Argentina would like to continue making these measures to support air quality affecting climate change globally. Argentina also understands the importance of making air quality a priority in poorer areas within a country. Equal access to clean air should be put first for many countries so clean air no longer has to be a choice. Argentina would like to continue efforts to have better air quality monitoring as well as early signaling to areas exposed to unhealthy air. Efforts for replacing gas cars to EV will also persist, by creating tax incentives to switch into an eco-friendly vehicle. These tax incentives will consist of tariff elimination from certain electric cars to lower costs. Argentina will also implement policies to encourage domestic production and increased charging stations within the country.
Works Cited
EPA. “Air Quality | US EPA.” EPA, https://www.epa.gov/air-quality. Accessed 19 November 2025.
WMO. “Particulate matter from wildfires causes globally over 100,000 annual deaths – impacts of fire smoke and desert dust are unevenly distributed between continents.” World Meteorological Organization WMO, 29 October 2025, https://wmo.int/media/news-from-members/particulate-matter-from-wildfires-causes-globally-over-100000-annual-deaths-impacts-of-fire-smoke. Accessed 19 November 2025.
The World Bank. “Climate Explainer: Climate Change and Air Pollution.” World Bank, 1 September 2022, https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/feature/2022/09/01/what-you-need-to-know-about-climate-change-and-air-pollution. Accessed 19 November 2025.
