Mexico Tackles City Pollution with Blue-Sky Thinking Nicki Shields and Matthew Knight - CNN
go to original March 28, 2016

Nicki Shields talks to environment minister Tanya Muller and the founder of an electric car sharing scheme about how the city is cleaning up its act. (CNN)

It's a megacity with massive environmental issues.

Mexico City was famously labeled the most polluted city on the planet by the United Nations during the early 1990s but, more than two decades on, efforts to improve the air quality for its 20 million inhabitants are advancing.

In recent years, the capital has successfully implemented a range of measures to combat pollution which, according to a 2013 study by the Mexican Competitiveness Institute, likely causes around 1,700 deaths per year in the city.

A four-year Climate Action Program launched in 2008 mitigated six million tons of CO2e (carbon dioxide equivalent), and in 2014 a new six-year program to climate initiatives was launched to build on recent gains.

Mexico City's minister for environment, Tanya Muller Garcia, has been leading efforts to make the streets less congested, less polluted and more pedestrian friendly.

During this month's Formula E race in the Mexican capital, CNN Supercharged presenter Nicki Shields met up with Muller to discuss how the city is slowly cleaning up its act.

Read the interview at KBZK

Related: Mexico City's Smog Problem Isn't Getting Better Because People Hate Public Transit (VICE News)

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