Amid worsening air quality, Mexico City’s mayor pledges to lower emissions

As Mexico City entered its 4th environmental contingency alert of 2025, the city’s Mayor Clara Brugada signed a public-private statement to trim the city’s aerial pollution.

The document, Agreement For a Low-Emission City, outlines a collaboration betwixt the metropolis and the backstage assemblage to trim emissions.

La #CapitalDeLaTransformación da un paso histórico con el Acuerdo por una Ciudad Baja en Emisiones, un compromiso entre los sectores público, privado y ciudadanía para reducir la contaminación y enfrentar la situation climática. Con la participación de todas y todos construiremos… pic.twitter.com/Ft96XH5nO9

— Clara Brugada Molina (@ClaraBrugadaM) April 2, 2025

Brugada, CDMX Tourism Minister Alejandra Frausto and Mexican concern leaders signed the statement Tuesday.

“This statement addresses 1 of the astir important tasks we face: reducing, mitigating, and addressing clime change,” Brugada said. 

Brugada said Mexico City contributes 4% of the country’s state emissions. Without measures to trim them, this fig could triple by the mediate of the century, she said.

The statement seeks to alteration Mexico City into a cleaner, healthier metropolis with little emissions done six cardinal actions.

1. Developing integrated and sustainable mobility options, including promoting bicycle usage.
2. Building homes with star panels.
3. Reducing by fractional the 13,000 tons of discarded generated successful the superior daily.
4. Enhancing the city’s sustainable h2o management, including h2o recycling, recovering bodies of h2o and rehabilitating dams.
5. Revegetation of the countryside and the city.
6. Implementation of a greenish taxation aimed astatine reducing emissions and promoting sustainable technologies.

Brugada’s authorities volition besides motorboat a telephone for national proposals to determination guardant successful biology matters.

Although Guadalajara’s metropolitan portion has lone a 4th of the colonisation of Mexico City, it has, astatine times, surpassed the nation’s superior successful aerial contamination levels. (University of Guadalajara)

Developing a national emissions database for Mexico’s high-pollution cities

President Claudia Sheinbaum said that the Environment and Natural Resources Ministry (Semarnat) and the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) are researching the metropolitan areas of the Valley of Mexico, Guadalajara and Monterrey owed to precocious contamination levels there.

The probe teams, Sheinbaum explained, are focusing connected measuring pollutants and connected creating an emissions inventory to measurement contamination levels and place liable parties.

Air prime consciousness successful schools

Mexico City’s Environment and Natural Resources Ministry (Sedema) has launched the Air Quality School Banners programme to assistance children admit the ozone season’s effects connected their wellness and larn however to support themselves from it. 

During ozone season, ozone concentrations are astatine their highest levels owed to the deficiency of wind, debased humidity levels, and aggravated radiation. In Mexico City, this happens betwixt February and June.

The School Banners programme educates children connected Mexico City’s Air Quality Index, including the meaning of the emblem colors associated with the initiative. The flags tin beryllium 1 of 5 antithetic colors, each corresponding to the day’s aerial quality. 

The flags are raised regular and stay successful spot depending connected aerial prime successful the school’s area.

With reports from Debate and Animal Político