mexico, support for the development and uptake of - Unido

• Promote Memoranda of Understanding and Agreements on matters related to climate
change.
• Diffuse nationally information about climate change, including an annual public report of
the Country advances.
• Promote, systematize and make available to the public, information relevant to the
Commission functions.
The Under Secretariat of Planning and Environmental Policy (SPPA) is in charge of the Climate
Change issues of SEMARNAT and the Commission Technical Secretariat reports to the Under
Secretary. SPPA is to present during this year the National Strategy for Climate Action (ENAC)
and, between other activities, the Undersecretariat is conducting actions to promote CDM activities;
to create National GHG emissions reduction markets, and to promote activities to reduce methane
emissions.
The Commission will count with Working Groups as required. One of the Working Groups is the
(pre-existing) Mexican Committee for Emissions Reduction and Greenhouse Gas Sequestration
Projects (COMEGEI), in charge of the promotion, diffusion and evaluation of CDM projects and to
advice the President of the Commission on the emission of Letters of No-Objection and of
Approval; assuring the voluntary participation of the stakeholders and the certainty of the
contribution of the projects to the national sustainable development. COMEGEI is the point of
entry for CDM projects national approval.
Recently was established the Energy Sector Committee on Climate Change to coordinate the
participation of the energy sector at the Interministerial Commission (CICC).
Since the existence of COMEGEI, Mexico has signed MOUs on CDM with 8 countries: Austria 94 ,
Canada, Denmark, France, Italy, Japan (JBIC), Netherlands and Spain.
I.3.1.- DNA STRUCTURE, PROCEDURES AND REQUIREMENTS
DNA administrative structure
The structure of the Commission, which acts as the Mexican DNA, has been recently established
and is at present 95 :
Figure 6 DNA administrative structure
Interministerial Commission of
Climate Change
COMEGEI
Consultative
Council
National Strategy
of Climate Action
Technical
Secretariat
Working Groups
94 See Annex I-G.
95 “Proyectos del MDL”, Miguel Ángel Cervantes, COMEGEI, June 2005.
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