The Mexican president, Claudia Sheinbaum, announced in her morning conference that Mexico will be represented by the Secretary of Environment, Alicia Bárcena, at the upcoming United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP29). During this event, the government's environmental plans for this term will be presented.
"Alicia Bárcena will be there (at the conference), our representative, and we will present the energy transition program, the 'Sembrando Vida' (reforestation) program, and other programs, such as this circular economy center we will establish in Tula, Hidalgo (central region) and several projects we have planned for this term," Sheinbaum stated.
The COP29 climate summit began this Monday in Baku (Azerbaijan) with a call to the world to raise the climate financing goal, as countries "are heading towards the ruin" of the planet, warned the president of the global conference, Mukhtar Babayev, during the inauguration. The summit will be held in the capital of Azerbaijan until November 22, with the presence of leaders from around the world at the highest political level, aiming to increase funding to combat the climate crisis, among the main challenges.
The energy transition initiatives proposed by Sheinbaum partially reverse the reform of the government of Enrique Peña Nieto (2012-2018) that opened the sector to private investment and categorized Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) and the Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) as "productive companies" to compete equally with private entities. The government of Andrés Manuel López Obrador (2018-2024) and now Sheinbaum's have faced criticism for promoting Pemex hydrocarbons and prioritizing energy from CFE plants, even if they come from less clean sources than private generators.
