Compliance with Climate Change Policy in the Federal States of Mexico

Abstract

The objective of the analysis was to identify the level of compliance with the climate change policy of Mexican states through a review and analysis of the progress and lags in state policy. The results will be used to propose strategies to promote the implementation of national climate policy, and therefore, the reduction of climate change impacts. The methodological process involved reviewing state climate change policy instruments by 1) examining government websites, 2) submitting requests through the National Transparency Platform, and 3) using search engines on the Internet. Once the documents had been obtained, they were organized and assigned an arithmetical score according to the number of instruments. The sum equaled 100 % compliance and was divided into five rankings (very low, low, medium, high and very high). Most states have a low or very low level of compliance (63 %), eleven states have medium compliance and one has very high compliance. It was observed that although progress has been made in certain states, there is still a need to develop and further promote climate change policy at the state level. The main contribution of this analysis was the determination of the level of compliance, and its particularities, in each state.