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Argentina’s Senate to Weigh Glacier Law Overhaul as Greenpeace Sounds Alarm

Critics warn provincial discretion over glacier protection would jeopardize national water security.

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Desde CAEM sostienen que una reglamentación más clara permitiría reforzar la protección efectiva de los glaciares, reducir riesgos legales, promover inversiones, generar empleo y dinamizar las economías regionales.
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Overview

  • Law 26.639 is slated for Senate debate in the coming weeks under a proposal to modify Argentina’s national glacier protections.
  • IANIGLA–CONICET has inventoried nearly 17,000 glaciers that feed 36 hydrological basins across the country.
  • The draft would shift final protection decisions to provinces and introduce subjective terms such as “relevant alteration,” according to Greenpeace.
  • Greenpeace warns weakened rules could put freshwater sources for more than 7 million people at risk in a period of record warmth and largely irreversible glacier loss.
  • The group also cautions that non-Andean provinces, including Santa Fe, could see reduced production, lower exports, port bottlenecks, job losses, and fiscal strains if upstream water declines.