Poznan Day 11: Mexico announces 2050 GHG target

The Mexican Government just now announced it will reduce its emissions by 50 percent of 2002 levels by the year 2050. It will do so through a national trans-sectoral cap-and-trade programme that would be operational by 2012. It will focus on oil, cement, electricity and steel. The sectoral scheme is being designed in collaboration with the Center for Clean Air Policy (CCAP).

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Sectoral approaches are part of the Bali Action Plan as a pathway for developing countries to establish nationally appropriate mitigation actions. Mexico is a non-Annex 1 country, yet a member of the OECD and NAFTA. It is one of few developing countries that have the capacity to be first movers in joining Annex 1 countries in setting targets and timetables as a means of addressing climate change. The announcement marks progress from this years G-8 summit in Hokkaido where Mexico and other developing countries refused to commit to a halving of emissions by mid-century along with their developed country counterparts

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Dennis Markatos-Soriano

Definitely great news-
It also takes one of the key US excuses away: that emissions will leak South of the border (a bunch of coal plants near Tijuana, etc.)

Now it’s time for Obama & Co. to get crankin’ toward leading legislation to pass in 2009!

See my thoughts at: http://www.setenergy.org

Onwards to sustainability,
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December 11 2008

Niel Bowerman

This follows the unlikely leadership by Norway, Switzerland, MEXICO, South Korea and India in Accra last year. (http://www.enn.com/energy/article/38035) Mexico really appears to be growing into a global leader in the climate change arena.

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