Alicia Bárcena guarantees to face the problem of water administration from Semarnat

MEXICO CITY (apro).– Though she couldn’t stay within the Ministry of Overseas Affairs (SRE), Alicia Bárcena Ibarra will assume possession of the Ministry of Surroundings and Pure Sources (Semarnat) in the beginning of Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo’s six-year time period; She promised that she is going to make the most of her place to advertise a transition “from extractivism to sustainability,” and insisted that water administration can be certainly one of her major challenges.

“The great administration of water all through the nation is a superb dilemma,” acknowledged the nonetheless chancellor in an interview with the press after the ceremony by which Sheinbaum introduced his appointment at Semarnat. “This nation requires an awesome restoration campaign to fight deforestation, forest fires, destruction, air pollution,” she added.

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Up to now, Bárcena is without doubt one of the three members of Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s cupboard who will proceed in Sheinbaum’s cupboard: Rogelio Ramírez de la O will proceed to move the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit score (SHCP), whereas Marcelo Ebrard Casaubón , the previous chancellor, will assume the Ministry of Economic system (SE).

After 15 years in Chile, first as president of the Financial Fee for Latin America (ECLAC) after which as ambassador, Bárcena returned to Mexico in June 2023, with the invitation of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, to exchange Ebrard within the Ministry of Overseas Affairs (SRE) when the politician resigned from his place to dedicate himself absolutely to his pre-campaign for Morena’s candidacy for the Presidency.

Throughout his yr on the head of the Overseas Ministry, Bárcena needed to cope with a number of diplomatic crises, together with fentanyl trafficking and migration, within the relationship with the USA, or the dispute with Ecuador over former vice chairman Jorge Glas, which led to the raid of the Mexican Embassy in Quito, the breaking of diplomatic relations and the presentation of cross-claims earlier than the Worldwide Courtroom of Justice (ICJ).

The chancellor deepened Mexico’s rapprochement with the leftist governments of Latin America and on the identical time relaxed relations with Spain; In parallel, following López Obrador’s directions, he defended a impartial place for Mexico within the warfare between Ukraine and Russia – final week he refused to signal the declaration of the Peace Conference, as a result of the Swiss authorities had not invited a delegation of Moscow – and in Israel’s warfare in opposition to Gaza.

“This switch from the SRE to Semarnat is essential, as a result of at this time the nice international challenges are in local weather change, in biodiversity, in using water, and that’s the place Dr. Claudia Sheinbaum, who’s a satisfied that it’s an important difficulty to seek for renewable vitality, to seek for electromobility, to seek for a special way of life,” Bárcena informed the press.

The top of Mexican diplomacy will formally stay within the SRE till September 30, however reported that her group is already reaching an settlement with that of her successor, Juan Ramón de la Fuente, for the transition course of.

The previous rector of UNAM, who at present serves as transition coordinator on Sheinbaum’s group, will take the reins of the Overseas Ministry with diplomatic expertise within the authorities of López Obrador, who despatched him as Mexico’s ambassador to the United Nations, in New York, from 2019 to final yr.