As Mexico’s Popocatepetl volcano continues to spew ash and greenhouse
gases, the Mexican people themselves have resolved to reduce emissions
of carbon dioxide.
A law recently passed by the Mexican legislature will reduce
emissions of carbon dioxide by 30 percent below business-as-usual levels
by 2020, and by 50 percent below 2000 levels by 2050, reported Nature. By 2024, Mexico will also derive 35 percent of its electricity from renewable resources, according to the new law.
But some worry that enforcement of the laws may prove a challenge in
Mexico, which is both the world’s 11th largest economy and greenhouse
gas emitter.
“We’re very good at making laws. And then the problem is enforcing
them,” Juan Bezaury, a Mexican public policy expert with the Nature
Conservancy, told Nature.
