Mexico's likely next president is a scientist. Politics has her mostly quiet on climate threats
A live TV news station covering breaking news and traffic for Colorado Springs, Pueblo, and Southern Colorado with a strong investigative team The leading presidential candidate, Claudia Sheinbaum, is largely avoiding mentioning climate threats in her campaign ahead of the June 2 election despite being an environmental scientist and co-author of the 2007 Nobel Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report. This is due to the increasing sea-level rise and severe drought conditions affecting Mexico's coastline and reservoirs. Her mentor and popular leader, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, has moved his country away from fossil fuel use, following a shift away from oil and gas. This shift is seen as a significant shift from traditional fossil fuel usage to the use of renewable energy.
Published : 4 weeks ago by in Politics Science
By DORANY PINEDA and SUMAN NAISHADHAM
Associated Press
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Sea-level rise and increasingly ferocious storms are eroding thousands of miles of Mexico’s coastline. Drought is draining reservoirs dry and creating severe water shortages. Deadly heat is straining people and crops. But the leading presidential candidate Claudia Sheinbaum isn’t making climate a central part of her campaign ahead of the June 2 election. This despite the fact that she is an environmental scientist and a co-author of the 2007 Nobel Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report. That is because as many countries move away from the burning of fossil fuels like oil and gas, Sheinbaum’s mentor and popular leader, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, has moved his country in the opposite direction.