Mexico Aims to Reduce Greenhouse Emissions

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico plans to set targets for emissions of carbon dioxide by early next year as part of an effort to stop global warming, but could reduce them by 13 percent in a decade, the environment minister said on Tuesday.

Juan Rafael Elvira said Mexico produces 623 million metric tons of carbon dioxide per year and could eliminate about 80 million metric tons with some simple steps as part of a plan to attack global warming.

Last week, President Felipe Calderon launched a climate-change plan that included planting 250 million trees this year and getting old trucks and buses off its roads but did not set emissions targets.

Elvira said targets will be included in a formal government program to cut greenhouse gases, scheduled to be drawn up later this year or in early 2008.

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