Mexico Takes Bold Stance for Global Climate Action at COP28
Mexico asserts its commitment at COP28, advocating for ambitious climate action, just transition, and adaptation. With a focus on the Global Goal on Adaptation and the loss and damage fund, Mexico's delegation aims to shape a sustainable future at this critical UNFCCC conference.
Mexico is participating in the 28th Conference of the Parties (COP28) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), which takes place from November 30 to December 12, 2023, in Expo City Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
The Government of Mexico will promote ambitious, fair and socially responsible climate action. It promotes a vision of just transition, maximizing social and economic opportunities, with a gender, intersectional, intercultural and intergenerational approach, and full respect for human rights.
It also seeks to preserve compliance with the objective of keeping the global temperature increase well below 2° C and with consideration of not exceeding 1.5° C, compared to pre-industrial times, to avoid the devastating impacts of climate change.
COP28 is taking place at a critical time when States must make greater efforts to meet their obligations under the Paris Agreement to limit global temperature increase and prepare to face the adverse effects of climate change.
This multilateral event is taking place in a context in which the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has released its Sixth Assessment Report (AR6), highlighting the devastating consequences of rising greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The report calls for reducing GHG emissions by 43% by 2030 or 60% by 2035, underscoring the need to meet the Paris Agreement targets.
Given this sense of urgency, COP28 will hold the first Global Stocktaking (GST), assessing progress and gaps in the implementation of the Paris Agreement. Mexico expects that as a result of this exercise, recommendations will be adopted to strengthen the elaboration and implementation of the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) and other climate policy instruments.
For Mexico, a crucial aspect of the negotiations is to strengthen global action for adaptation, recognizing the need to increase adaptive capacity, strengthen resilience and reduce the vulnerability of all natural and human systems, especially those in vulnerable situations.
Mexico will advocate for the adoption of a Global Goal on Adaptation focused on people, livelihoods and ecosystems. It will also seek to agree on the operation of the loss and damage fund, with a view to supporting the most vulnerable countries and strengthening adaptation measures. It will take as a reference its experience with the Climate Adaptation and Comprehensive Response to Natural Disasters Fund of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States.
The Mexican delegation will be led by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, headed by the Undersecretary for Multilateral Affairs and Human Rights, Joel Hernández García, who will be accompanied by the Secretary of Agriculture and Rural Development, Víctor Manuel Villalobos Arámbula, officials from the Ministries of Environment and Natural Resources, Energy and the Navy, and other stakeholders, as well as youth ambassadors for the climate from the “Operation COP 2023” program, who will participate at different times during the Conference.
The UNFCCC COP is held annually and brings together approximately 80,000 people, including heads of state and government, delegates, representatives of civil society, the private sector, environmentalists and legislators.
