Mexico's Take On Climate Change

Mexico’s General Law of Climate Change (GLCC) represents a significant advance in public policies aimed at reducing GHG emissions by the year 2030 and 2050.

The GLCC implements the treaties and protocols our country is a party and meets the needs required from the advances arising in international agreements and stands out Mexico as a pioneer in the regulation of global climate change, the first country not -Annex 1 of the Kyoto Protocol to have a regulation of this kind.

The GLCC has 116 articles across nine titles and 10 Transitory Articles, the preamble says it’s goal is "to establish a legal framework to regulate, promote, provide and organize public policy adaptation and mitigation to climate change implemented in our country, giving character required by general abstract rules. And ensure that the actions implemented by the federal government have a legal framework that provides mandatory and continuity to the policies adopted in Mexico, following changes in public administration. "

It also encourages states and municipalities to take action in mitigation and adaptation to climate change within their jurisdictions to initiate local action for a global effect. It is impossible to bring about real change in reducing the effects of climate change without the active participation of states.

Mexico’s National Policy on Climate Change

The design of climate change policies is necessarily cross , this involves coordinating the activities of the three levels of government and civil society. According to the results presented in Fifth Communication, Mexico had made progress in this area as follows :

·      Vertical integration of the issue on the agenda and state and municipal activities;

·      Horizontal integration of multiple agencies of the federal government and the private sector;

·      Climate change issues have to go along with the human rights agenda , especially the indigenous peoples and gender equality issues.

Mexicans are increasingly more aware of the benefits involving environmental services for both the development and the welfare of man and the counterproductive effects for the same which causes the deterioration of the environment.

But unfortunately, this current is still very conscious novel and insufficient, as we can see, current practices promote a model of development that far from having the environment as a priority, deteriorates substantial way.

On adaptation to climate change at the end of the first semester of 2012, according to official figures, the overall average advance of the provisions of the ECCP was 75%. It had 45 strategic goals fulfilled 100%, 91% of targets met mitigation water, 79% of public health goals and 76% of the targets for ecosystems.

Public policies to counter the effects of climate change are especially designed to obtain a low carbon growth (IEDs) and the pair develop a green economy. The national treatment IEDS includes:

• Assessing the potential for reducing GHG emissions including the abatement curve analysis, mitigation opportunities by sector and deployment paths.

• Analysis of the impact of actions to reduce the economy to micro and macro level.

This movie explains everything you need to know about climate change in my country (spanish only):

• The co-benefits of mitigation, energy security, impact on health and social security.




You can take a look at the government recent actions by clicking here: http://inecc.gob.mx/cpcc-estudios-cclimatico#2012

Mexico's household emissions can be seen here: http://inecc.gob.mx/descargas/cclimatico/inf_inegei_public_2010.pdf

The effects of climate change in Mexico can be seen here: http://participacionsocial.sre.gob.mx/docs/incidencia_social_ambito_regional_multilateral/agenda_internacional/agenda_y_temas_internacionales/cambio_climatico/presentaciones/cc_julia_2.pdf