Mexico undergoing a climate science revolution

BBC : Mexico will become just the second country in the world, after the UK, to introduce long-term climate targets into national legislation—if its president signs the bill next week. Overall, the targets appear to be fairly demanding and will require international financial support to implement. Among the measures proposed, the country will aim to derive 35% of its energy from renewable sources by 2024 and will require government agencies to use renewables. Regarding emissions, Mexico is not proposing to cut them but rather to cut the rate at which they are projected to rise: a 30% reduction in emission growth by 2020 and 50% by 2050. “All political parties have found common ground on this issue,” writes Richard Black for the BBC, as indicated by the unanimous vote in Mexico’s Senate on Thursday. According to Porfirio Muñoz Ledo, a member of the Mexican Parliament, “Mexico is aware this is the end of the oil era, so we need to implement this fiscal reform.”