Mexico's Coastal Cities Not Ready for Climate Change Emilio Godoy - Inter Press Service
go to original July 17, 2013

Progreso's economy is based on tourism, fishing and the port. Although it is highly vulnerable to climate change, it still has no local plan. (Emilio Godoy/IPS)

PROGRESO, Mexico - Towns on Mexico’s Caribbean coast are behind schedule on the design and implementation of plans to face the challenges of climate change, in spite of the urgency of measures to reduce vulnerability.

The country’s 2012 General Law on Climate Change requires state and municipal governments to implement programmes addressing issues like greenhouse gas inventories and adaptation and mitigation policies.

IPS visited 37 coastal municipalities in the southeastern states of Tabasco, Campeche, Yucatán and Quintana Roo, and found that only six had specific programmes, 10 were in the process of creating them, and the rest said they were unaware of the requirement.

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