Low-Carbon Development for Mexico
Figure 1.3 Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Energy Production and Consumption, by Sector 450 other
400
manufacturing & construction
350
Mt CO2e
18
300
transport
250 200
oil & gas: fugitive emissions
150
oil & gas: fossil fuel use
100
power generation
50 0
1990
2002
2006
year Sources: SEMARNAT and INE 2006a (data for 1990–2002); 2006 data are preliminary and are from INE. Note: Data exclude emissions related to land use, land-use change, and forestry.
Recognizing the multisectoral challenges posed by climate change, in April 2005 Mexico established the Comisión Intersecretarial de Cambio Climático (CICC) (Intersecretarial Commission on Climate Change). The CICC’s key mandates include formulating and coordinating national climate change strategies and incorporating them into sectoral programs.5 The CICC contains several working groups, including groups on mitigation and adaptation. Associated with the CICC is an advisory board on climate change, which creates a link between the CICC, the scientific community, and civil society (see http://tinyurl.com/infoc4).
Overview of the Sector Analysis and Structure of the Report Chapters 2–6 assess the potential for greenhouse gas reduction in Mexico by sector. For the purposes of analysis, the economy was divided into five primary sectors: electric power; oil and gas; stationary energy end-use sectors (including residential, industrial, commercial, and service sectors); transport; and agriculture and forestry (including biomass energy). These sectors, chosen based on their importance to current and projected future emissions, cover more than 90 percent of Mexico’s current emissions.6 The sectoral work draws on detailed background reports prepared for MEDEC. Each sectoral analysis focuses on a set of MEDEC interventions that would reduce greenhouse gas emissions over the coming two decades. The emission reduction interventions were selected based on their potential for overall emissions reduction, the net costs of interventions that reduce emis-