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#SICT.- The Ministry of Infrastructure, Communications and Transport (SICT), through the Mexican Space Agency (AEM), and the Mexican Agency for International Development Cooperation (AMEXCID) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (SRE), will develop satellite platforms to monitor climate change in forestry and agricultural areas of our country, with the support of scientists and engineers from Uruguay.

By virtue of the Mexican Government’s international will to reduce GHG (Greenhouse Gas) emissions, this national satellite infrastructure project will be promoted for this purpose, since of the 52 variables to measure and mitigate Climate Change, half can only be obtained precisely from space, explained the general director of AEM, Salvador Landeros Ayala.

The National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) explained that, under a scenario of international inaction in the next thirty years to mitigate GHG emissions, the present value of the impacts of climate change and global warming could have repercussions for Mexico in the second half of the century, with an average loss of 5% of annual GDP and agricultural effects.

For this reason, the Mexico-Uruguay Joint Cooperation Fund (AMEXCID-Uruguayan Agency for International Cooperation) was established for this project, in collaboration with AEM, UNAM and the University of the Republic (Udelar) of that country, and whose resources will be administered by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), Montevideo headquarters, in alignment with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations (UN).

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