Within the framework of World Environment Day and as part of the discussion “Environment: sowing well-being”, of the “City and Transformation” forum held at FARO Cosmos, the Head of Government, Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, indicated that Mexico is an example of action for other countries in terms of reducing environmental impacts, with a policy With a vision of well-being, economic development and hope.
“Mexico today is an example for many countries of what is being done, and what must be done is to continue the orientation where we can never forget those who have little, that is, there must be well-being, there must be a reduction in environmental impacts and there must, of course, To have an economic development that allows us to generate both conditions. This is what we were doing in Mexico City and, without a doubt, this is what the President of the Republic was doing, “said the local chief.
Accompanied by the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development (SADER) of the Government of Mexico, Víctor Manuel Villalobos Arambola; Chairman of the Commission on the Environment in Megacities (CAMe), Victor Hugo Páramo Figueroa; The lawyer and human rights defender, Julia Alvarez Icaza Ramirez, President of the Government, highlighted some of the results of the “Program for the Environment and Climate Change”, implemented in Mexico City since 2019.
“These are examples of how, without significant economic resources, through changes in behaviour: separating garbage into organic and inorganic and, at the same time, new technological developments, allows us to reduce greenhouse gas emissions; they generate well-being, as they generate jobs; and they allow us to build An economy that differs from the industrial economy that we have lived in for many years, which ignored absolutely everything,” he noted.
Claudia Sheinbaum highlighted that more than 35 million trees and plants have been planted, enabling the possibility of capturing carbon dioxide, along with restoring water bodies, in the interest of biodiversity, with 60 migratory species returning to the city.
He also noted the intervention of the Magdalena, San Buenaventura and Los Remedios rivers, as well as the Grand Canal and Lake Xico, the last drainage channels that are now being restored with wetland water purification projects.
He said that 200 hectares of green space had been restored through the “Sembrando Parques” program and that 4.2 billion pesos had been allocated to the “Altépetl Bienestar” programme, which focuses on saving protected lands.
Regarding solid waste management, the head of government spoke of the Azcapotzalco transfer station and the selection station, the most modern in Latin America for the treatment of inorganic waste, which together with the second plant to be built in Gustavo A. Madero will allow recycling. About two thousand tons of waste per day, and he added that with the hydrothermal carbonization plant, organic waste is processed to turn it into coal pellets.
For his part, the President of SADER, Victor Manuel Villalobos Arambola, noted that Mexico is already moving towards sustainable agriculture, with good agricultural practices and soil care, allowing carbon sequestration and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The effect of global warming on the atmosphere. Likewise, he explained that agriculture is part of the solution to the problem of climate change, with a shift in productive activities and food systems.
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