• REPORT: A new report by the United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP) openly chides President Andrés Manuel López Obrador energy policies arguing that it rolls back major progress by Mexico to comply with its greenhouse gas emissions reduction promises.
• REVERSAL: “Mexico’s new Administration has stalled years of progress in the energy sector with decisions that threaten to reverse progress made towards enhanced climate action”, said UNEP’s Emissions Gap Report in a grim assessment of Mexico just one week from the COP-15.
• POLICIES: In its annual Emissions Gap Report, UNEP disapproves key decisions by López Obrador during his first year in office including the cancellation of a long-term power auction, the abandonment of two major transmission-line projects and the construction of a new oil refinery.
• SUMMIT: In a turnaround for Mexico -a country that during the past years had been leading multilateral action on climate change-, Foreign Secretary, Marcelo Ebrard, may face a now tough time next week at the UN’s Framework Convention on Climate Change Summit (COP-25) in Madrid.
