Denmark and Mexico Strengthen Cooperation on Renewable Energy and Climate Change Mitigation

23 December 2013

The Danish government has granted EUR 6 million from the Danish Climate Envelope 2013 to assist Mexico in the low carbon transition in areas of climate change mitigation, renewable energy integration and planning, and energy efficiency in non-residential buildings and larger industries.

The climate and energy programme is based on close cooperation between the Danish Ministry for Climate, Energy and Building, the Mexican Ministry of the Environment and Natural Resources and Mexican Ministry of Energy.

Programme objectives

The main focus of the programme is policy and regulatory frameworks that target interventions to promote renewable energy and energy efficiency in Mexico, including goals of reducing its greenhouse gas emissions by 30% below its business as usual scenario by 2020 and to generate 35% of its electricity through use of non-fossil fuels by 2014.

During 2014-2017 the programme will initiate a range of actions that enhance Mexico’s capacity to implement key strategies and programmes, such as the Special Programme for Climate Change, the Special Programme on Renewable Energy and the National Programme on Sustainable Energy.

The activities of this programme have been selected within areas where Mexico has expressed a need, where a significant CO₂ reduction potential can be realised, and where Denmark has relevant long lasting experience and expertise.

The immediate objectives of the programme are:

- The Mexican Ministry of the Environment and Natural Resources and the National Institute of Ecology and Climate Change are enabled to drive ambitious mitigation action in support of Mexico’s low-carbon transition benefitting from Danish support for analysis and policy development.

- Low-carbon transition of the power sector will be facilitated through sharing of experience and policy, planning, regulatory and technical cooperation in order to promote and enable the efficient large-scale integration of renewable energy and cogeneration into the Mexican power system.

- Low-carbon transition is facilitated through contributions to better framework conditions for increased energy efficiency and energy savings in buildings and industry through cooperation on policy, regulation and supporting measures.

Building on long-term cooperation

The energy sector programme builds on past cooperation between Denmark and Mexico, including Memorandums of Understanding within climate change and energy, partnerships around the COP15 and COP16, as well as technical cooperation on modelling of national emissions baselines and emission reduction potentials.

- Read the document for the Climate Channge Mitigation and Energy Programme

Source: The Danish Energy Agency

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