Mexican Government report: "Climate Change" will lead to human relocation program

[rambone]

This is a report from the Mexican government describing a plan to mitigate "climate change", which as it describes, may include human resettlement programs.

The history of government-driven human relocation has not been a very good one. The idea rightfully makes a lot of people nervous. At best, it could amount to people being driven from their property. At worst, we can only speculate.


Executive Summary Special Climate Change Program 2009-2012 Mexico - Mexico's Actions

Pages 4-6

Long-term vision
The climate change process has a long-term global impact that can only be addressed with appropriate political vision for the future, essential for the planning of human activities consistent with sustainable development. Only through the convergence of the objectives of all countries in a common target for mitigation, international cooperation for making progress on adaptation, and the transformation of planning criteria towards goals and objectives that go beyond the temporary frameworks of public administration, may the challenge of climate change be successfully met in the coming decades.

Mexico sets out as an indicative or aspirational target, a reduction of 50% in its GHG emissions by 2050, compared with the volume emitted in the year 2000. In doing so, Mexico aspires to contribute to a potential stabilization of atmospheric GHG concentrations at a level not exceeding 450 parts per million of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e), compatible with limiting the Earth’s average temperature increase to between 2˚and 3° C, and a flexible convergence towards global average per capita emissions of 2.8 tons of CO2e, in 2050.

In this desirable trajectory towards reduction, Mexico’s emissions would have to reach an inflection point in the second decade of this century, and then decrease gradually to reach the level indicated in 2050: approximately 340 million tons of CO2e (MtCO2e). This trajectory will very likely trace an irregular curve in time, as a result of the dynamics of the economy and the implementation of successive and increasingly complex and more expensive mitigation measures, (see Figure 1 and Table 1).

Mexico’s aspirational target will only be met if a multilateral regime is established which includes financial and technological support mechanisms from developed countries on an unprecedented scale. Mobilization of such support is consistent with the principle of “common but differentiated responsibilities” and its ethical rationale is grounded in the accumulated historical emissions generated by developed countries.

The mitigation effort that Mexico intends to develop requires deep transformations in production and consumption patterns, energy use, natural resource management, and in the ways that land is occupied and used.

With respect to adaptation, the vision for 2050 of this Special Program sets out three major stages: a first stage (2008 to 2012) to assess the country’s vulnerability and conduct an economic evaluation of priority measures; a second stage (2013 to 2030) to strengthen the strategic adaptation capacities, and a third stage (2030 to 2050) to consolidate the capacities already built.

The first stage of vulnerability assessment and economic valuation of priority measures corresponds to the enactment of this Special Program in the 2009–2012 period, the main result of which will be the design of an integrated program of adaptation, executed progressively.

The second stage, strengthening strategic, large-scale adaptation capacities, from 2013 to 2030, includes as priorities: attaining equilibrium between degradation/deforestation and restoration/reforestation; the adoption and implementation of sustainable agriculture and livestock production systems; the eradication of measures that encourage environmental degradation and cause GHG emissions; the implementation of relocation programs for human settlements and infrastructure in high risk areas, and the implementation of policies aimed at climate stability and sustainable development.

The consolidation stage, between 2030 and 2050, will result in attaining a positive balance between reforestation and deforestation, development options that ensure environmental sustainability, and a strengthened national planning system based on criteria to decarbonize the economy and minimize vulnerability to climate change.

 

[Compatriot G]

Seems to me they have already started their relocation program by sending their citizens north!

 

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[nawainwright]

yeah....I'm gonna go with, they're already "relocating" people. This is just a thinly veiled excuse to justify it.

 

[Leadeye]

The mexican government.......... now there is a fountain of honest, accurate, information.

 

[Expat]

Now don't be too harsh, what was that catastrophe movie last year where we had to go to Mexico to survive a glacier ice age kind of thing. I thought, when I saw that movie, it was supposed to make us more charitable toward those folks coming North. Didn't work on me though.