| | |  News Around the Republic of Mexico | September 2009 
Meeting Between President Felipe Calderón and Al Gore
 Suzanne Stephens Waller - Presidencia de la República
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September 30, 2009
| | During the meeting, they dealt with various aspects of the problem of environmental care, particularly climate change, as well as potential areas for cooperation between Mexico and the United States. | |
The Presidency reports that Tuesday, Mexican President Felipe Calderón met with Al Gore, Nobel Peace Prize 2007 and former U.S.Vice-President at the Official Los Pinos Residence.
During the meeting, they dealt with various aspects of the problem of environmental care, particularly climate change, as well as potential areas for cooperation between Mexico and the United States in this field. They exchanged points of view on the negotiations carried out by the world’s countries prior to the Summit Meeting on Climate Change to be held in December in Copenhagen, Denmark.
They both acknowledged the importance of reaching agreements at this Summit and thereby breaking the impasse that has plagued multilateral negotiations in order to cope more effectively with climate change.
The President declared that certain countries have achieved significant unilateral progress in their mitigation measures and plans of action but that there is still an urgent need to take specific, multilateral steps to overcome obstacles and differences between developed and developing nations in order to achieve substantial change in mitigation, adaptation, financing and technology regarding climate change.
Al Gore hailed President Felipe Calderón’s leadership in the climate change negotiations, particularly Mexico’s efforts to establish a global fund to provide financial incentives for countries, regardless of the degree of development of their economies, to mitigate carbon emissions. He also hailed the Mexican government's significant efforts through the ProTree Program.
The Mexican President congratulated Al Gore on his work in sensitizing societies to the phenomenon of climate change and was particularly grateful for the fact that his organization, The Climate Project, undertakes actions in this respect, with young inhabitants of the Mesoamerican region. He hoped that these projects would help consolidate a multinational system to cope with climate change.
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