Mexico passes climate-change law

Nature: The Mexican legislature passed one of the strongest national climate-change laws so far on 19 April. Mexico, which ranks 11th in the world for both the size of its economy and its level of carbon emissions, joins the United Kingdom in having legally binding emissions goals aimed at stemming the effects of climate change. After three years of debate and revisions, the bill passed in Mexico's lower house with a vote of 128 for and 10 against, and was later passed unanimously by the Senate. The new...

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