WWF Mexico and the Alliance for Climate Action in Mexico urge the national government for higher ambition and action to address the climate crisis.
On December 12 2015, 195 nations signed the Paris Agreement, a historic agreement to tackle climate change while respecting human rights. As part of this agreement, the signatory countries presented their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) to stabilize greenhouse gas emissions and limit average global temperature rise to well below 2° degrees Celsius. However, the 2015 commitments made by most countries were not enough to meet this goal. With the NDCs initially presented by the signatory countries, Mexico included, the global temperature could increase between 3 and 4° C by the year 2100. According to the scientific community, this will have catastrophic consequences. On the 5th anniversary of the Paris Agreement celebrated this year, countries were required to review their commitments under the principle of progression, which seeks increased target ambition to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050. In recent days, the government of Mexico released its revised NDC but, unfortunately, does not follow this principle. Mexico only endorsed the same commitments made in 2015: a 22 percent decrease in its greenhouse gas emissions and 51 percent decrease in black carbon.
