Mexico Announces Ambitious 2030 Climate Target Alex Nussbaum and Eric Martin - Bloomberg
go to original March 28, 2015

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Mexico became the first developing nation to formally promise to cut its global-warming pollution, a potential milestone in efforts to reach a worldwide agreement on tackling climate change.

Mexico’s greenhouse-gas emissions will peak in 2026 and fall thereafter, Environment Minister Juan Jose Guerra Abud said at a news conference in Mexico City. The nation has pledged to curb the growth of emissions 25 percent from its current trajectory by 2030.

Negotiators from more than 190 states are trying to craft a deal this year that would, for the first time, wrest promises to fight climate change from both rich nations and the emerging markets where emissions are growing the fastest. Mexico is the first developing nation to submit its plan before a March 31 United Nations deadline that most countries are going to miss.

Mexico’s announcement is an “ambitious and important commitment in the fight against global warming,” said Rhea Suh, president of the Natural Resources Defense Council, a New York-based advocacy group. “Its pledge to make meaningful cuts in dangerous carbon pollution sends a signal that will help secure a global climate-protection agreement in Paris this year.”

Mexico’s pledge has two components. It will reduce greenhouse-gas emissions 22 percent and will halve the production of so-called black carbon - particles created by burning wood, diesel and other fuels. The net effect will reduce by 25 percent the generation of air pollution that’s causing global warming.

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