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Mexico’s new president promises to resume fight against climate change

In her first days as Mexico’s new president, Claudia Sheinbaum made a point of distancing herself from the fossil fuel reliance promoted by her predecessor and mentor, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, and vowed to resume an energy transition that he halted.

“We are going to boost renewable energies. The goal is that by 2030, they will have a 45% share (of total electricity production),” she said Tuesday in her first public speech in the capital’s Zocalo square, shortly after being sworn in as the country’s first woman president.

During the term,of AMLO, Mexico’s rating for global warming deteriorated while temperatures increased and droughts worsened.

The goal of reaching 45% clean electricity by 2030 is well above the 24% it represented last year, according to the Ministry of Energy. If achieved, Mexico would be back on track to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement, which seeks to keep the global average temperature to no more than two degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.

The energy policy promoted by López Obrador led Climate Action Tracker, an organization which evaluates the actions countries take to comply with the Paris Agreement, to downgrade Mexico’s rating to “critically insufficient.”

Here’s hoping the best of success for the new presidenta on this topic.

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She really needs to fight corruption/ illegal activities. B-)

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She really needs to fight corruption/ illegal activities.

The first step would be to stop Prohibition II. As long as there are millions and billions of ill-gotten gains to be had, the corruption will continue.

Ah, unless I am mistaken, we have had this conversation before, yes?

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She really needs to fight corruption/ illegal activities.

Hopefully government can do more than one thing!

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Chilpancingo mayor Alejandro Arcos, 43 was beheaded six days after taking office. with his severed head displayed on car roof in a cartel assassination. Three days earlier the secretary of the city council was also killed.

Sheinbaum has pledged to stick to her predecessor's "hugs not bullets" strategy of using social policy to tackle crime at its roots.

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Chilpancingo mayor Alejandro Arcos, 43 was beheaded six days after taking office. with his severed head displayed on car roof in a cartel assassination. Three days earlier the secretary of the city council was also killed.

Sheinbaum has pledged to stick to her predecessor's "hugs not bullets" strategy of using social policy to tackle crime at its roots.

What Presidenta Sheinbaum actually said was "NO MORE WAR ON DRUGS". It doesn't mean the police and the military are doing nothing and not going after organized criminals. It means Mexico is not playing the USA's failed war on drugs game. Tens of millions of U.S. citizens want to recreationally use substances that the U.S. government prohibits. Those citizens are going to get their buzz one way or another, taking one substance or another. This is not Mexico's fault and it shouldn't be Mexico's problem to solve by waging a war against the suppliers. Each supplier killed or arrested is replaced by another, usually someone more ruthless than their predecessor.

Unfortunately, there is apparently no achievable solution because neither U.S. nor Mexican voters will support legalizing those substances. So here we are on the merry-go-round empowering organized criminals and corrupt officials to run a black market for those substances, including the Republican Party who staged a phony war in Central America in order to traffic cocaine to buy illegal weapons to trade with Iranian terrorists so they would NOT to release their U.S. hostages until AFTER Ronnie Raygun was sworn into office.

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Interestingly, in the USA psychedelics are being legalized for psychotherapy. Has a link to Zihuatanejo, with Tim Leary and his famous Concord Prison Experiment,decades ago.

https://www.apa.org/monitor/2024/06/psychedelics-as-medicine

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No legalization yet in therapy. The FDA shot down psilocybin recently as a tool for treatment for PTSD,etc. ot enough research supporting it. Shows promise!

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Thanks for the update. I saw a ton of psychedelic-assisted psychotherapists on linkedin, so I assumed it was already allowed.

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Chilpancingo mayor Alejandro Arcos, 43 was beheaded six days after taking office. with his severed head displayed on car roof in a cartel assassination. Three days earlier the secretary of the city council was also killed.

Sheinbaum has pledged to stick to her predecessor's "hugs not bullets" strategy of using social policy to tackle crime at its roots.

Some people will use any thing, including tragic killings, to distract from discussion of the existential threat of global warming that increases daily.

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Chilpancingo mayor Alejandro Arcos, 43 was beheaded six days after taking office. with his severed head displayed on car roof in a cartel assassination. Three days earlier the secretary of the city council was also killed.

Sheinbaum has pledged to stick to her predecessor's "hugs not bullets" strategy of using social policy to tackle crime at its roots.

My contacts. In MANY different Mexican states, all say things are terrible right now.

Law and order FIRST, climate change second.

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Law and order FIRST, climate change second.

And in the US, “Inflation first, global warming second”.

In Canada, “The oil & gas economy first, global warming second.”

If we do not address global warming now, our children, our grandchildren, and future generations will properly condemn us.

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The main reason we actively decided not to have children.

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Law and order FIRST, climate change second.

And in the US, “Inflation first, global warming second”.

In Canada, “The oil & gas economy first, global warming second.”

If we do not address global warming now, our children, our grandchildren, and future generations will properly condemn us.

I have no idea what Canada is doing but it's absurd to say the US isn't addressing it. As well as other countries.

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Too bad China and India aren’t on that list. Until that happens the efforts are meaningless.

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Climate Action Tracker

Overall rating INSUFFICIENT

As of 2022, the US has achieved about one third of its 2030 emissions reduction target. CAT current policies projections, which include the IRA, show a more pronounced reduction in emissions until 2030. Although CAT projections suggest that the US will close the gap by an additional 30%–44% by 2030, it is still 23%–37% short of meeting the required 2030 emissions reductions, evidence that further action is critically needed. The current US target of 50–52% reductions below 2005 by 2030 is not 1.5˚C compatible.

The “Insufficient” rating indicates that the US’ climate policies and action in 2030 need substantial improvements to be consistent with the 1.5°C temperature limit. If all countries were to follow the US approach, warming would reach over 2°C and up to 3°C.

In the current election, the number one issue is the economy.

Number 2 is democracy; number 3 is national security.

Climate change is number 21 of the top 22 issues.

Economy Most Important Issue to 2024 Presidential Vote

The United States, the world’s second-largest emitter, was the only country to withdraw from the accord, a move by former President Donald Trump that took effect in November 2020. However, President Joe Biden reentered the United States into the agreement during his first months in office.

https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/paris-global-climate-change-agreements

Trump is poised to return to office chanting “Drill, baby, drill.”

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www.dreaminmexico.com

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