On World Environment Day, President launches National Cleaning Strategy in 12 thousand km of beaches / @Claudiashein @GobiernoMX >>>
#GobiernoDeMéxico.- Within the framework of World Environment Day, the president of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, launched, from the morning conference: «The Mañaneras of the People», the National Strategy to clean beaches and coasts with which 12 thousand kilometers (km) of coastal areas of 17 states in which 63 beaches will be served will be served.
«Today this day begins. It is not only today that the beaches are cleaned, but it is a comprehensive strategy that has Semarnat (Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources) incorporated with the municipal presidents and presidents that are in the coastal areas, in the almost 12 thousand, including the islands, kilometers of coasts of our country,» he said.
At the conference a link was held, from the National Palace, with the governors of Guerrero, Evelyn Salgado; from Yucatán, Joaquín Díaz Mena; from Quintana Roo, Mara Lezama; on behalf of the governor of Jalisco, Pablo Lemus, the Secretary of Environment and Territorial Development of said entity, Paola Bauche; and Baja California, Marina del Pilar Ávila, who promised to work to have clean beaches and contribute to the goal of eliminating 100 percent plastic by 2030.
The Secretary of Environment and Natural Resources, Alicia Bárcena Ibarra, stressed that in Mexico there are 15 thousand tons of plastics, of which 80 percent end in the coasts and beaches. Therefore, in coordination with the Secretariat of the Navy, cleaning is promoted in 17 states of the Republic.
He explained that the goal is to participate citizens, citizens, entrepreneurs and entrepreneurs, organizations, among other groups to adopt a beach for conservation with the aim of removing an estimate of 3 thousand tons of garbage per year, and that in the next five years the arrival of plastics to the oceans is reduced.
«What we just want is that our beaches, coasts and seas are really ours, that we appropriate them; and the president, in addition, has invited us to make them public, to be areas of sovereignty, public goods and development,» he said.
Therefore, he reiterated the call to the people of Mexico not to contaminate the beaches and commemorate World Environment Day every day. «You have to love beaches, not pollute,» he said.
The Secretary of the Navy, Almirante Raymundo Pedro Morales Ángeles, informed that garbage on the beaches and coasts is a problem in many parts of the world, therefore, through the National Strategy for cleaning beaches and coasts, 63 beaches will be cleaned with the deployment of 2,528 naval elements and will be invited to an average of 6,915 volunteers of schools and civil society to participate.
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