Title: Contradictions Between Energy and Climate Change Mitigation Policy in a Country with Oil Reserves: The Case of Mexico
Abstract: This chapter aims to analyze the nexus of energy policy and climate change policy on the one hand and energy security and climate change mitigation on the other in Mexico. Based on the Energy Trilemma framework of the World Energy Council (2018, 2020), we propose four policy goal categories for our assessment: Energy Resilience, Energy Independence, Energy Sustainability/Reduction of Emissions, and Energy Affordability. This way, we qualitatively analyze to what extent there is an alignment of energy- and climate-change policy. For the analysis, we give an overview of the instruments that constitute both policy fields, that is, strategies, priorities, instruments, and regulatory frameworks, and detect these impacts on the four categories. We find considerable inconsistencies: Energy policy harms climate mitigation goals by compromising on emission reduction and climate policy affects energy security by hampering energy affordability. Yet, we also identify alignments, such as in the case of natural gas and electricity auctions. Therefore, we recommend reducing trade-offs between policy goal categories attached to current policy design and overcoming the historical fossil-fuel bias of energy policy.
Publication Year: 2023
Publication Date: 2023-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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