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North American Commission for
Environmental Cooperation
(NACEC)
Organización Latinoamericana de
Energía (OLADE)
The Alliance to Save Energy (ASE)
The World Bank Prototype Carbon
Fund (PCF)
United Nations Development
Program (UNDP)
United Nations Environment
Program (UNEP)
United Nations Institute for
Training and Research (UNITAR)
World Business Council for
Sustainable Development
(WBCSD)
World Resources Institute (WRI)
Activities on Climate Change, including studies of CDM opportunities in
Mexico 25 .
Energy studies, inter alia, cooperates with Synergy 2000.
International Organization that promotes energy savings, has compiled a list of
Energy Services Industries in Mexico (See an adaptation at Annex I-D).
Baseline and monitoring methodologies. 5 Mexican renewable energy projects in
the PCF pipeline.
UNDP has developed at Mexico, several projects related to climate change and
CDM, and several ongoing enabling activities, including:
Capacity building
Actualization of National Inventories of GHGs.
The 3d National Communication to UNFCCC (in preparation).
Pilot institutional development project for Mexico, Central America and Cuba.
Also supported a project on emission factors by live organisms.
Supported a project on capacity building for CDM, for chosen countries in Latin
America, including Mexico.
Based on the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Standard, developed a voluntary reporting
platform for Mexican companies. (See Box 1).
Participates in promotion of the voluntary GHG reporting platform for Mexican
companies. (See Box 1).
Foreign Governments
The more important foreign governments promoting or supporting CDM related activities in
Mexico are:
Foreign Governments
Austria 26
Canada
Denmark
France
Germany
Italy
Japan
Description
See Subsection I.1.3
A MOU for CDM was signed with Mexico with several CDM related activities,
Oct. 2004. Methane from animal and municipal waste and renewable energies.
A MOU for CDM was signed with Mexico.
A MOU for CDM was signed with Mexico in 2004, at the Environmental
Ministerial Meeting of OECD, in this case the instrument was signed between the
Governments, hence is in the process of ratification by the Mexican Senate, to
enter into force.
The German Technical Cooperation Agency (GTZ) is active in Mexico on climate
change, also the Friedrich Foundation. Cleaner production and reforestation.
A MOU for CDM was signed with Mexico, Oct. 2004, between SEMARNAT and
the Italian Ministry of Environment and Territory. 5 million tons of CO 2 are
involved.
The 2004 Agreement between Japan and Mexico for the Strengthening of the
Economic Partnership contains clauses for the capacity and institutional building of
the CDM. A Cooperation Agreement (CA) was signed with the Japan Bank for
International Cooperation (JBIC) related to CDM activities. Japan posses a
CDM/JI Acceleration Program that includes Mexico.
Korea Letter of Intent for Cooperation in Climate Change, Dec. 2004.
Netherlands
A MOU for CDM was signed in April 2004, with the Ministry of Housing, Spatial
Planning and the Environment, for projects started after 2000 and up to 2012,
involving emissions of 5 million CO 2 equivalent.
Norway First country to cooperate in emission reduction projects with Mexico (1994),
supported in part the ILUMEX project. Old AIJ type.
25
Mexico and Emerging Carbon Markets, CEC, 2001. CDM opportunities, sections on Steel and Forestry by Dr.
Edmundo de Alba in collaboration with Lic. Manuel Estrada.
26 The text of the MOU with Austria is in Annex I-G.
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