Mexico’s new president is a climate scientist. That could be a boon for California.
California officials are cheering Mexican President-elect Claudia Sheinbaum’s victory as one for the California climate, too. “Having an engineer whose background is working on climate, it’s a big deal,” said Assemblymember Eduardo Garcia, a Democrat representing California’s inland border region who was in Mexico City with Sheinbaum’s team on Sunday to witness her landslide victory. … California politicians already enjoy close relationships with their Mexican counterparts and have agreements in place to work on a host of climate issues, including drought, land conservation, recycling and cross-border truck emissions. … Josué Medellín-Azuara, an environmental engineering professor at the University of California, Merced said he was hoping for more collaboration on water infrastructure and drought resiliency in particular.
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