President Claudia Sheinbaum announced at her morning conference that Mexico will be represented by the Secretary of Environment (Semarnat), Alicia Bárcena, at the upcoming United Nations Conference on Climate Change (COP29). At this event, the government's environmental plans for this term will be presented.
"Alicia Bárcena will be 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 are going to create in Tula, Hidalgo, and several projects we have planned for this term," Sheinbaum affirmed.
COP29 started in Baku (Azerbaijan) with a call to the world to raise the climate financing goal, indicating that countries are "on the path to ruining" the planet, warned Mukhtar Babayev, president of the global conference. 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 address the climate crisis among the main challenges.
The energy transition initiatives proposed by Sheinbaum partially reverse the previous government's reform that opened the sector to private investment and classified Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) and the Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) as "productive enterprises." The current government has faced criticism for prioritizing Pemex’s hydrocarbons and energy from CFE plants, even though they come from less clean sources than those of private generators.
