| | |  Editorials | Environmental | October 2009 
Mexico's Efforts on Climate Recognized
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October 23, 2009
 |  | Great Britain considers Mexico one of the most important leaders on the topic worldwide.
- Stephen Lysaght |  | | |
The ambassadors of the United Kingdom and Denmark in Mexico recognized Mexico's leadership of in fighting climate change and celebrated President Calderón's Green Fund initiative as a viable option to solve the international problem.
Judith Anne MacGregor, United Kingdom ambassador, and Johannes Dahl-Hansen Denmark's ambassador, held a joint press conference to present the Summit on Climate Change: Competitiveness for Businesses, which will take place in Mexico City next week.
Both spoke highly of Mexico's initiatives and proposals to fight global warming, and they pointed to President Felipe Calderón's Green Fund as a possible solution.
MacGregor called Mexico's climate change proposals very interesting.
Stephen Lysaght, the climate change official at the British Embassy in Mexico, talked about how important the issue is for both the Mexican and the United Kingdom governments, and said that Great Britain considers Mexico one of the most important leaders on the topic worldwide.
Lysaght said the UK maintains a close working relationship with Mexico on the topic, as evidenced by the dedicated office in the British embassy in Mexico City.
Meanwhile, Dahl-Hansen said that the Green Fund initiative places Mexico as one of the main players in the fight against climate change on a global level.
He said the president's proposal is viable and will surely be taken into account during the international climate change meeting that takes place in Copenhagen, Denmark this December.
The ambassadors agreed that Mexico's leadership in climate change issues makes it appropriate that the Summit on Climate Change is taking place in Mexico.
The event will bring together experts from the private and public spheres to analyze possible courses of action to steer economic pursuits towards more environmentally respectful practices and still generate earnings for businesses.
MacGregor and Dahl-Hansen both said that the adoption of clean technologies and efficient use of energy is more productive than taking no action, because the price of taking immediate action is less than the eventual cost of not doing anything.
The Summit takes place October 28 in Mexico City.
Participants include Mexico's Finance Secretary Agustín Carstens; Mario Molina, the 1995 Nobel Prize winner for chemistry; Armando Paredes, president of the Business Coordination Council; and Georg Kell, executive director of the United Nations Global Compact office, among others. |
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