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On April 19, Mexico's Senate approved a climate change bill, adopted earlier in the year by the Chamber of Deputies, that would require Mexico cut emissions 30 from current levels by 2020 and 50 from 2000 levels by 2050, as well as create a voluntary cap-and-trade scheme
Mexican President Felipe Calderón’s administration, via a 2007 climate change strategy and 2009’s Special Climate Change Program, is working to meet its 2020 target for a 30 reduction of carbon dioxide emissions from baseline projections
Mexico will issue this November the Regulation for the Control of Emissions of Greenhouse Gases and Energy Efficiency Applicable for New Light Vehicles, fuel economy regulations for new cars and light-duty trucks that will prevent 160 MMT CO2 emissions and save 327 million barrels of fuel in the period ending 2030
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson and Mexico’s Secretary for the Environment and Natural Resources Juan Elvira Quesada signed the Border 2020 U.S.-Mexico Environmental program agreement August 8
