Position Paper

Topic: Environmental issues

Country: Mexico
Committee:

(A) Environmental issues are the products of negative acts created by the hand of
man or by the same environment. It is considered an environmental issue to any
alteration that causes an imbalance in any environment, thus affecting it negatively.
These problems are reflected by pollution in water, air, soil, animals and the
weather. It is due to this that Environmental policies were made, this is the product
of a tension that arises between the preservation of a natural environment in good
condition and the economic growth of each nation. The importance of it arises
because this is the result of two problems that have been facing the States in the last
years. Situation that has generated that the citizens demand greater implementation
of public environmental policies to attend and to repair the damages caused by the
same human being, product of the bad use that it gives to the same one.

(B) Mexico is one of the countries where there has been a high degree of pollution
in recent times. Mainly in Mexico City, considered one of the most polluted cities
on the planet. Vehicular contamination, and poor waste management are the most
common types of environmental issues. Mexico has made notable efforts to
implement an efficient environmental legal framework and has created institutions
that comply with the established legal framework in order to solve the
environmental problems of the citizen.

(C) Throughout its history, Mexico has been presenting environmental problems
such as air pollution, the availability of drinking water, soil degradation,
deforestation rate, solid waste matter, etc. It is for the above that the government has
been implementing public policies to eradicate almost all the environmental
problems mentioned above.
(C1) In Mexico, 9 out of 10 cars are fueled by gasoline which is a big polluter of the
environment. the use of alternative fuel such as natural gas may be a measure to
alleviate the harmful effect of vehicular pollution and there is some environmental
policy that regulate this problem
(C2) Due to poor management of waste Mexico spends billions of pesos in this,
however, has not been able to establish efficient processes in the treatment of these
pollutants. To solve this, Mexico seeks to create a waste management program that
uses the gases emitted by the waste to generate energy in order to begin to reduce
the problem of garbage in this city.
(C3) The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is a specific problem that has been
occurring in the country due to the inadequate use of oil extraction.
since 2010 to the present Mexico has created solutions for oil spills in the Gulf of
Mexico. Such as changes in machinery, fungi to break down pollutants from
hydrocarbons, and using materials to absorb oil as straw.

(D) Despite being a country with too many environmental problems, Mexico has
been responsible for creating environmental policies that seek to improve each of
these types of pollution. Our country is desperately struggling to stop being one of
the most polluting in the world. It is expected that in the next years there will be a
considerable improvement and that each of the solutions will be carried out
effectively