Mexico will assume an “important” climate commitment at COP27: John Kerry

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador will make a major announcement on the country’s climate commitments, the top US climate diplomat said on Wednesday. John Kerryahead of the UN COP27 talks next week.

Kerry said the United States had urged nations around the world to increase the amount each country commits to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and expected new commitments to be announced “in the coming days.”

“I was just in Mexico a few days ago and we will have an important announcement that President López Obrador has agreed to regarding what Mexico is going to undertake now,” Kerry added during a news conference ahead of his trip to Egypt for the summit. the ONU.

“That will be significant,” he added.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (SRE) did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Mexico, Latin America’s second-largest emitter, pledged last year to expand its climate change goals and reduce its greenhouse gas emissions, after being criticized for policies that the research coalition Climate Action Tracker says would increase emissions rather than reduce them.

On October 28, the main US diplomat on climate matters, John Kerry, met in Hermosillo, Sonora, with President Andrés Manuel López Obrador and the cabinet of the energy sector to make an evaluation of the electrical plans and the Sonora Plan, which includes lithium, batteries, automotive industry.

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