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The governments of Mexico and the United States agree more than they disagree on the fight against climate change, Natural Resources and Environmental Secretary Juan José Guerra said on Thursday.
Guerra’s comments were made at the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 19) in Warsaw, where he met with U.S. Special Envoy for Climate Change Todd Stern to talk about the actions their respective governments need to take. “We agree that we have to begin to act right away,” José Guerra said.
“We agreed that by 2015, countries should be able to say what actions have been taken instead of what they’re going to do, so that we can see convincing results.”
Though Mexico has suffered from the effects of climate change, José Guerra said that it was not on the list of developing countries which hope to receive resources to implement environmental programs.
“We’d like there to be more financing, but we can’t delay our efforts because that won’t take us anywhere,” he said. “Instead, if we act, we’ll see technology exchanges, technical assistance and other programs.”
Bolivian Environment and Water Secretary José Zamora Gutiérrez called on developed countries to do more to help developing countries reduce their emissions, saying that current carbon trading schemes take the burden of reducing emissions off rich countries and allow them to profit off climate change instead of providing financing and technical assistance to poor countries.
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