CERES Conference on Energy and Sustainable Development

The reason for my trip to Puebla last week was to participate, as a late addition, in a conference entitled Energía para el Desarolla Sustentable en América del Norte, or Energy for Sustainable Development in North America.  The conference was hosted by CERES, the Centro de Estudios de Desarollo Regional y Estratégicos (Center for Regional and [...]

Obama Engaging Mexico on Climate Change?

Ok, so the title is a little misleading, but the White House sent out a press release on Friday that the Obama administration is seeking to meet with and engage representatives from “major economies,” including Mexico, in preparation for the next major climate summit (December 2009, Copenhagen).  You can read about it on the NY [...]

Mexico to promote forest conservation and management to combat climate change

It was reported today that Mexico will promote a policy of forest conservation and management at the UN Food and Agriculture Organization’s (FAO) meeting next Monday, 16 March 2009.  CONAFOR, the Comisión Nacional Forestal apparently stated that Mexico feels that conservation and sustainable forest management are “key” to mitigating climate change and a “cornerstone” of [...]

The World Bank, climate change, and Mexico

The World Bank’s presence in México is through the auspices of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, or IBRD.  The IBRD is one of the five sub-institutions that comprise World Bank and has offices south of the city center on Insurgentes Sur.  (It’s near the changarro with the atomic salsa). Late last year, the [...]

CEMDA, climate change, and Mexico

This is the first in a series of (hopefully non-opinionated) posts regarding organizations in Mexico City that are working on climate change. CEMDA, or the Centro Mexicano de Derecho Ambiental (Mexican Center for Environmental Rights) is an NGO headquartered in Mexico City that works to support legislative and educational action on environmental issues, including conservation, [...]

CEDAN Conference On Cross-Border Climate Policy

Monday and Tuesday of this week, I attended a workshop on cross-border climate policy between Canada, Mexico, and the U.S., at the Tecnológico de Monterrey’s campus in Mexico City (map).  The  conference was hosted by one of Tec.’s policy research groups, called CEDAN, or el Centro de Diálogo y Análisis sobre América del Norte. I have a tough [...]

Mexico Pledges to Halve Carbon Emissions

Last week at the UN Conference on Climate Change in Poznan, Poland, the Mexican Secretary of the Environment and Natural Resources Juan Rafael Elvira pledged that México will reduce its carbon emissions to half of the 2002 levels (EX Online, Milenio).   I must admit, I’m a bit skeptical of the sincerity of the pledge [...]