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Mexico Pledges Tougher 35% Emissions Cutting Target for 2030

Photovoltaic panels at the Salsipuedes solar plant in Villa de Arista, San Luis Potosi state, Mexico.

Photovoltaic panels at the Salsipuedes solar plant in Villa de Arista, San Luis Potosi state, Mexico.

Photographer: Mauricio Palos/Bloomberg

Mexico is boosting its Paris Agreement pledge and vowing to cut greenhouse gas emissions 35% by the end of the decade, after environmentalists panned its earlier promise as insufficient. 

The new target, announced by Mexico Foreign Secretary Marcelo Ebrard at the COP27 climate summit in Sharm El-Sheikh, replaces a prior goal to reduce emissions 22% below a business-as-usual scenario by 2030. Ebrard highlighted the target at a news conference Saturday alongside US Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry.