| Mexico will host the next Global Legislators Organization for a Balanced Environment (GLOBE) meeting on climate change for the Americas on November 21-23, 2008. The conference will take place one week before the United Nations Summit on Climate Change, which will be held in Poland the first week of December. Adam Matthews, GLOBE’s Secretary General; Terry Townshend, Director of Policy Development at GLOBE, which is based in London, Great Britain; and Sergio Jellinek, World Bank Communications Manager for Latin America and the Caribbean, held a series of meetings preparing for the event with representatives from different parties from the Congressional Commissions on the Environment and National Resources, Energy, and Agriculture and Husbandry, including the President of the House of Representatives, Representative César Duarte Jáquez. | | | | | | | | | | Left: Representative César Duarte Jáquez (PRI Party), President of the Mexican House of Representatives. Right: Adam Matthews, Secretary General of GLOBE International. Initial greeting at the closed meeting in the Salón Tres Banderas at the Congress. Mexico City, September 3, 2008. |
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The initiative is led by Representative Mariano González Zarur, Chairman of the Competitiveness Committee and active participant in the climate change dialogue that GLOBE has organized since 2005 with the support of COM+, the Alliance of Communicators for Sustainable Development. “Mexico is in a dire situation because of global warming, causing Congress to name climate change a national priority. We are not only proud that GLOBE chose Mexico to host such an important meeting, but we will give all our support to ensure that it is a success,” expressed Representative Duarte, President of the House of Representatives. Adam Matthews said that “the Americas forum is a unique opportunity to highlight the role of the Americas in the search for solutions for a post-2012 international scenario. Mexico can play a key role as a bridge between developing nations and wealthy countries,” referring to a future accord that will replace the Kyoto Protocol, ending in 2012. The Forum has the following goals: - Establish a common platform for legislators in the Americas to discuss and promote measures to address global climate change, with a specific focus on regional experiences that can benefit the international community.
- Address the inter-linkages between climate change, energy and food security, and how the region can cooperate in these areas.
- Explore the economics of climate change in the region and devise and propose innovative mechanisms to adapt to and mitigate its impacts
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