Post by account_disabled on Feb 22, 2024 0:32:03 GMT -5
Two years into the government of Andrés Manuel López Obrador, there is no congruence in government policies and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), set out in the 2030 Agenda promoted by the United Nations (UN), experts say. During his second government report, the president assured that his government takes care of the environment “like never before,” despite criticism from “pseudoecologists” who attack his administration, mainly for the extraction of oil and gas with hydraulic fracturing. “The use of transgenic corn or fracking is not allowed, the water is taken care of,” he declared. However, the National Hydrocarbons Commission (CNH) has a record that Mexico produces 195 thousand barrels of oil per day through fracking, in addition to purchasing almost 5 billion cubic feet of natural gas from the United States from this same technique, and which produces almost half of the electricity that the country demands. Specialists described the federal government's actions regarding sustainable development and the environment as negative; on the contrary, priority and emphasis have been given to initiatives that "take us away from our goals." Anaid Velasco, Research Coordinator of the Mexican Center for Environmental Law (CEMDA), assured that actions such as the construction of the Dos Bocas Refinery, the policies that have slowed down an energy transition focused on green energies, as well as the promotion of the use of fuel oil as the main source of energy generation makes the discourse totally contradictory.
It is of no use that, in this case, the Bulgaria Mobile Number List Semarnat (Secretariat of the Environment and Natural Resources) has a concerned agenda that addresses environmental issues, if within the same government the Sener (Secretariat of Energy) is focused on the opposite side. ”, he highlighted. He assured that it is worrying that the achievement of the Mexican government in two years is the Sowing Life program, whose implementation must be done in a supervised manner or it could lead to counterproductive behaviors, for example the change in land use of native vegetation in order to be a beneficiary. He also recalled that under the argument of austerity, the sector has suffered a budget cut. “How are you going to protect the environment if you are not allocating the necessary resources to do so?” He glimpsed the great problem of environmental and territorial rights in the country, and argued that Mexico is the third most dangerous country to defend these positions at the Latin American level, on this issue "we see a lot of polarization and statements, which on the contrary, has generated risks to activists.
Carlos Lascurain, executive director of the Signos Vitales Association, considered that the government “has not given a signal to fulfill the commitments made regarding sustainable development; We are immersed in a very complicated discursive dilemma from civil society, there is no tangible result that can measure performance.” “Nowadays, detailed information no longer exists, we can no longer see data that we used to see, for example regarding the environment. A large part of the guidelines of the 2030 Agenda forge the needs of all countries in the world and set objectives that will allow, in the future, much better scenarios in issues such as economic, social, health and environmental development,” he highlighted. He indicated that these are “the challenges absent in the federal president's speech, instead of being an accompanying issue, it is a different agenda as if we were practically not immersed in a health and economic crisis, and where the policies were only a simple idea". He highlighted that currently civil organizations stopped being “nice” to become an important element that generates a positive response from the government. He described the policies of the current administration as “lagging behind” compared to the world, “the priority is not focused on sustainable management of natural resources, as shown by the imprudence of continuing with a project like the Mayan Train where there is an impact to the environment immensely.
