Alicia Bárcena, subsequent head of SEMARNAT. (Infobae Mexico | Jesús Avilés)
Alicia Bárcena Ibarra, present head of the Ministry of International Affairs (SRE), will be part of the cupboard of the digital president-elect of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, solely she is not going to stay in the identical division.
Throughout the morning of this June 20, Sheinbaum Pardo reported that the nonetheless chancellor of Mexico would be the subsequent head of the Ministry of Setting and Pure Sources (SEMARNAT), so subsequent September 30 will likely be her final day of workplace earlier than the SRE.
“Its origin is exactly environmental points,” highlighted the previous head of Authorities of Mexico Metropolis.
Photograph: JM Mariscal/Infobae México
Upon leaving the Interactive Museum of Economics (MIDE), after being named head of SEMARNAT, Bárcena Ibarra assured that Mexico has to proceed with the transformation venture of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, which means shifting away from extractivism and neoliberalism.
“This switch from the SRE to SEMARNAT is essential as a result of immediately the good international challenges are exactly in local weather change, biodiversity and water use; and that’s the place Dr. Claudia Sheinbaum calls me.”
She additionally stated she felt “very honored and completely satisfied,” along with recognizing the present head of the company, María Luisa Albores González.
“I wish to acknowledge María Luisa Albores, who has achieved an awesome job accountable for SEMARNAT. It is going to be my honor to proceed her nice work, so thanks very a lot.”
María Luisa Albores, present head of SEMARNAT. (Archive)
Bárcena Ibarra was born in Mexico Metropolis on March 5, 1952, making her at the moment 72 years outdated. On the nationwide and worldwide degree, she is a girl acknowledged for being a diplomat, biologist and educational.
He studied a level in Biology and obtained a grasp’s diploma in Ecology from the Nationwide Autonomous College of Mexico (UNAM).
He additionally has a grasp’s diploma in Public Administration from Harvard and three Honoris Causa doctorates from the College of Osio, the College of Havana and UNAM.
His public positions embody:
- Director of the Division of Sustainable Growth and Human Settlements of ECLAC (1999-2003)
- Head and Deputy Chief of Employees of the UN Secretary Basic (2005-2007).
- Deputy Secretary Basic for Administration and Administration on the United Nations (2007-2008).
- Ambassador of Mexico in Chile between 2022 and 2023.
International Minister Alicia Bárcena of Mexico attends the opening plenary session of the Ukraine Peace Summit, in Stansstad, close to Lucerne, Switzerland. EFE/EPA/MICHAEL BUHOLZER / POOL
- Govt Secretary of the Financial Fee for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) from 2008 to 2022.
- In Mexico she has served as Undersecretary of Ecology within the Secretariat of City Growth and Ecology (1982-1986) and was Basic Director of the Nationwide Fisheries Institute (1988-1990).
- Lastly, his most notable place got here on July 3, 2023, the day he assumed the SRE within the authorities of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
SEMARNAT is the company accountable for formulating and conducting nationwide coverage on pure sources and the surroundings. Its foremost goal is to advertise sustainable improvement that features the conservation, safety and use of the nation’s pure sources.
Amongst its key features, SEMARNAT has the accountability of building requirements and insurance policies for the conservation and sustainable use of ecosystems, in addition to coordinating actions for environmental safety. As well as, it screens compliance with environmental legal guidelines and regulates actions which will have an effect on pure sources, comparable to mining, logging and fishing.
The secretary additionally manages biodiversity conservation packages and safety of protected pure areas, comparable to biosphere reserves, nationwide parks and group conservation areas. Likewise, it promotes environmental training initiatives and encourages citizen participation within the protection of the pure surroundings.
SEMARNAT. (Infobae Archive)
One other of its important features is the administration of waste, each stable and dangerous, and the regulation of polluting emissions into the environment, water and soil. SEMARNAT additionally performs an necessary function within the environmental influence evaluation of infrastructure and improvement initiatives, making certain that detailed research are carried out and acceptable mitigation measures are applied.
By way of numerous decentralized organizations, such because the Nationwide Fee of Protected Pure Areas (CONANP) and the Nationwide Institute of Ecology and Local weather Change (INECC), SEMARNAT articulates efforts with federal, state and municipal entities, in addition to with civil society and the non-public sector, to hold out concrete actions in favor of the surroundings.
In abstract, SEMARNAT is the entity accountable for designing and executing complete environmental insurance policies, aimed toward guaranteeing the conservation and sustainable use of Mexico’s pure sources, in addition to selling citizen consciousness and participation within the safety of the environmental surroundings.
