The Mexican legislature has recently passed a climate change law. As reported in Nature, the new law 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. The law also mandates that Mexico will derive 35
percent of its electricity from renewable resources 2024. The climate change
bill passed Mexico’s lower house with a vote of 128 for and 10 against and in
the Senate the legislation passed unanimously.
