Transcript LEARNING WEEK FOR COMPREHENSIVE CLIMATE CHANGE

LEARNING WEEK FOR COMPREHENSIVE CLIMATE CHANGE
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Mexico’s experience setting emissions targets
Miguel A. Altamirano
Deputy Director on Adaptation
Coordination of the Climate Change Program
National Institute of Ecology / SEMARNAT
Windhoek, Namibia, OCT 10, 2011.
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Mexico overview
- Mexico is a developing
country located in the
American Continent, in
the region of Central and
North America.
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- It is a republic composed
of 32 States and approx.
2,500
municipalities,
free and sovereign in
all matters concerning its
internal organization but
united in a federation.
- Land area of near 2
million km2
- Population 112.3 million
inhabitant in 2010
- 1 USD = 13 pesos
States
Municipalities
Mexico's political organization divides the exercise of
governmental authority into three branches:
Executive
by the President of the
Republic
Include 18 Ministries
Ministry of Environment
and Natural Resources
(SEMARNAT)
Legislative
Represented by the
Senate and House of
Representatives
Judicial
It falls on the Supreme
Judicial Court, the Courts
Collegiate and Unitary Circuit
and District Courts
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What is the National Institute of Ecology?
Decentralized agency of SEMARNAT: created in 1993, it was reinvented in 2001
MISSION:
To
generate
scientific
and
technical information on environmental
problems for:
• Informing society
• Impulsing environmental protection
• Promoting sustainable
natural resources
use
• Supporting decision making
of
5
General Direction: 300 trusted
employees, 75 graduate degree
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1. Economics and Environmental
policy
2. Urban and regional pollution
3. Ecosystem Conservation
4. National Center of Environmental
Research and Training.
• Climate Change
National Communications, Inventories of
Greenhouse Gases (GHGs), State Programs, Portals, Focal Point of the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), support for
negotiations, research on emissions mitigation and adaptation to climate
change.
Topics
in
Climate
Change:
Activities of Mexico on Climate Change
Mexico has made activities to meet commitments with the United Nations Framework
Convention on Climate Change (Articles 4.1 and 12.1).
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Main drivers for the climate change agenda in Mexico
- Political interest and leadership in the international arena by the
President of Mexico
- Promotion of attention to the issue locally by the Governors of the states
- Experience in the operation of institutional arrangements and processes
to receive international resources and transparency in the exercise
thereof.
- National Development Plan (2007-2012). For the first time
climate change is recognized as a very serious problem and is
addressed by the side of the GHG emission mitigation and
adaptation to the adverse effects of the phenomenon
- For the first time Sector Programs (2007-2012) of several
Secretaries propose strategies to face climate change
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Main drivers for the climate change agenda in Mexico
- Creation of the Intersecretarial Commission on Climate Change
(CICC, for its acronym in spanish), in 2005, to achieve institutional
coordination. Composed of 10 ministries, including the finance,
social, agricultural, economic. Includes formal and informal work
groups.
- Special Climate Change Program (PECC 2009-2012). Mexico
recognizes the importance of taking action that contribute to the
international community's efforts in mitigation of GHG emissions
and adaptation to CC.
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- Capacity building in techniques officials and local research
institutions to develop their State Programs for Climate Change
Action (PEACC).
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How we set our vision
- Awareness and capacity building of officials from the ministries that
participate in the CICC, provided by the INE and SEMARNAT.
Industrial
processes
8.90%
Agriculture
6.40%
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LULUCF
9.90%
Energy
60.40%
- Development of research: eg. national inventory of GHG emissions,
GHG emission projections with tools such as LEAP, technological
paths, curves were obtained abatement cost.
- Were identified and evaluated potential mitigation measures
grouped into three sections: 1) those that can be carried out
with national resources, 2) those that require international
support and resources, 3) which should be considered when
exist the technological development
Waste
14.40%
Mexico emitted 709 Millions of Ton
CO2eq., in 2006. (1.5% of Global)
How we set our vision
- The results were analyzed by the PECC Working Group of the CICC,
to arrange a voluntary mitigate target of short and medium term that
the President of Mexico announced at COP 15.
- Setting the legislative framework and proving fiscal incentives
Some of the biggest champions:
- Mexican President and Governors of states
- Intersecretarial Commission on Climate Change
With support of national and international finance.
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Lessons learnt to move to developing a mitigation
strategy
- To include participation of private initiative to set mitigation targets
- Awareness and capacity building of officials from different ministries and the legislators, at
national and local level.
- Institutionalization of processes through the CICC at national y subnational level, to set and
meet goals and objectives about mitigation and adaptation to CC
- Establish strategic partnerships with multilateral and bilateral agencies to generate the
inputs required for the development and implementation of a CC strategy.
- Having a framework for the medium and long term to provide continuity to the attention of
climate change by the future government
- Development of State Programs for Climate Change Action, to influence the next
administration will give priority to issues of mitigation and adaptation to climate
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¡¡ THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION !!
Miguel A. Altamirano
National Institute of Ecology / SEMARNAT
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Delegación Coyoacán
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