Recomendaciones para la regulación del cambio climático

The program was implemented by Tetra Tech ES Inc. under contract AID-523-C-11-00001, funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). The recommendations for the regulation of climate change were developed by Vo.Bo. Asesores Integrales S.C. and Tetra Tech ES Inc. under the supervision of Ana Arrocha and Eric Mercado. The study was based on a comparative analysis of different climate change laws in Mexico, which was conducted as part of the MLED program. The recommendations are aimed at the different levels of government in Mexico, including the federal, state, and local governments. The main purpose of the recommendations is to provide guidance on how to regulate climate change effectively, taking into account the country's vulnerability to climate change and its limited impact on global emissions. One of the key recommendations is that the regulation of climate change should be integrated into the existing environmental legislation, rather than creating a separate law. This would help to maintain the integrity of the environmental legislation and avoid the dispersion of norms, which can make it difficult to apply the laws effectively. Another recommendation is that the definition of greenhouse gases (GEI) should be left to the regulatory or administrative orders, rather than being included in the law. This is because the definition of GEI is a technical matter that is subject to constant revision, and including it in the law would make it difficult to update. The recommendations also suggest that the priority should be given to adaptation, rather than mitigation, as Mexico is a vulnerable country to climate change and has limited impact on global emissions. The study notes that Mexico is responsible for only 1.5% of global GEI emissions, and therefore, its impact on mitigation is not significant. In terms of the creation of institutions, the recommendations suggest that the laws should not create new dependencies, entities, or units of the Administration Public (AP), as this is the responsibility of the laws that are applicable. Instead, the laws should create systems of change climate that facilitate coordination between different levels of government, and create specialized institutions for the evaluation of the local climate change policy. The recommendations also suggest that the laws should establish commissions intersecretarial that only have the objective of guaranteeing the coordination within the AP centralized, and that these commissions should be integrated by those dependencies and entities with competences that effectively affect the themes of adaptation to the effects of climate change and the mitigation of the emissions that potentiate it. Finally, the recommendations suggest that the laws should establish the integration of systems of change climate that permit to guarantee the permanent coordination with other levels of government, such as the municipalities or the Federal Government, and that these systems should be presided by the head of the dependency in charge of the climate change.