Mexico's Ley General de Cambio Climático (LGCC), published in the DOF on 6 June 2012 and last reformed on 13 July 2018 to incorporate Paris Agreement and NDC commitments, establishes the national climate change system and the mitigation and adaptation planning cycle, with INECC and SEMARNAT as its lead institutions. Its forestry counterpart, the Ley General de Desarrollo Forestal Sustentable, governs forest-ecosystem conservation and use and ties forestry-sector climate mitigation and adaptation action to the LGCC, rather than carrying its own separate REDD+ chapter.
Projects
Bii Nee Stipa II Wind Farm
A 74 MW, 37-turbine wind farm in Oaxaca's 'La Ventosa' wind corridor.
BlueMX Aztlán Blue Carbon Project
A filed blue-carbon restoration design for Nayarit’s coastal wetlands.
Conejos-Médanos Solar Photovoltaic Plant
An 80 MW solar plant in Chihuahua state, financed by a multi-institution climate finance package.
ONIL Stove Programme, Guatemala
HELPS International's ONIL wood-burning stove, an Ashden Award winner reaching 80,000 households by 2009.
Patsari Improved Cookstove Project
GIRA's Patsari cookstove, developed for Michoacán's Purépecha region since 2003.
San Crisanto / Yucatán Blue Carbon
A Mayan community rebuilt hurricane-wrecked mangroves into one of Mexico's first certified blue carbon projects.
Scolel'te
The world's longest-running ecosystem services project on the Voluntary Carbon Market, running since 1994.
Utsil Naj, Mexico
Microsol's Gold Standard-certified cookstove programme across six Mexican states.
XiCO2e Mexican Reforestation
Verra-registered reforestation of degraded farmland in southern and northern Mexico
Regulation
Held out for Carbon market: Candidate identified; not shown until its primary source is confirmed
Framework law
"La presente ley es de orden público, interés general y observancia en todo el territorio nacional…"Artículo 1°
Mexico's framework climate statute (DOF-published 2012-06-06, reformed 2018-07-13 to incorporate Paris Agreement/NDC commitments); establishes national climate change system, INECC and SEMARNAT roles, and the mitigation/adaptation planning cycle.
Issuing body: SEMARNAT / INECC · Corroborated
NDC
"En función de la trayectoria proyectada hacia cero emisiones netas para mediados de siglo, México se compromete a alcanzar emisiones netas entre 364 y 404 MtCO2e en 2035 de manera no condicionada, y entre 332 y 363 MtCO2e de forma condicionada a la movilización de financiamiento, la transferencia de tecnología y el fortalecimiento de capacidades por medio de la cooperación internacional."mitigation component; citation line "SEMARNAT, (2025). Actualización de la Contribución Determinada a nivel Nacional 3.0 de México"
Sets Mexico's first net targets, net emissions of 364 to 404 MtCO2e in 2035 unconditionally and 332 to 363 MtCO2e with international finance, technology and capacity support, on a path to net zero by mid-century, with adaptation, loss and damage, means of implementation and cross-cutting components.
Issuing body: Secretaría de Medio Ambiente y Recursos Naturales, SEMARNAT · Single source
Carbon market
See "Held out" note above.
Forest / REDD+
"regular y fomentar el manejo integral y sustentable de los territorios forestales, la conservación, protección, restauración, producción, ordenación, el cultivo, manejo y aprovechamiento de los ecosistemas forestales del país y sus recursos" (Artículo 1); "establecer, regular e instrumentar las acciones para la mitigación y adaptación al cambio climático, de conformidad con la Ley General de Cambio Climático" (Artículo 3, fracción XL)Artículo 1; Artículo 2 fracción IX; Artículo 3 fracción XL
Governs forest-ecosystem conservation/use and explicitly ties forestry-sector climate mitigation/adaptation action to the LGCC.
Issuing body: SEMARNAT / CONAFOR · Single source