United Mexican States
Dr. Fernando Tudela
Mexico is a Non-Annex I Party to the Kyoto Protocol, having ratified the accord on September 7, 2000. Fernando Tudela is the Mexican Underminister for Planning and Environmental Policy. The following is excerpted from Dr. Tudela’s address to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change’s Seminar of Governmental Experts in Bonn, Germany, on May 17, 2005.As a developing country, Mexico adopts poverty eradication as an absolute priority, and avoids policies that may jeopardize economic growth. As such, climate change is both a threat and an opportunity to foster sustainable development, inasmuch as risks associated with climate change itself and…
