Mexico is a mega-diverse country that hosts nearly 10% of species registered worldwide, many of them endemic. However, this ecological wealth is threatened with pollution and the loss of forests, among several factors.
According to the statistics institute data, in 1985 primary vegetation in Mexico, i.e., without alteration or degradations, covered 1,543,545 square kilometers of the national surface, but it had already dropped to 9.4% by 2014.
Aware of this huge challenge, Iberdrola México is committed to an energy transition that will also be an example of the fight against climate change. Regarding conservation, it encourages programs to educate the society and protect the country’s wildlife.
In the last few years, the company has developed projects to support ecosystem conservation at different points of Mexico where its power plants and farms are located. This is the case of the Garrapatas Estuary, in Altamira, Tamaulipas, where a mangrove was rehabilitated together with researchers and environmental advisors to restore biodiversity in the area.
In addition, the company works on the conservation and preservation of the Fernández Canyon, located in the state of Durango. The focus on this ecosystem is to restore and improve millenary sabino forests, control exotic species and community training to encourage orderly tourism in the park.
On occasion of the celebration of the World Environment Day, this June 3 the company takes an additional action in communities in San Luis Potosí that combines protecting nature with another of its pillars: social development. It is a new phase of the Huertos Comunitarios (Community Orchards) program -which was born in 2021- in which an orchard will be planted in Cuixcuatitla, which will benefit 130 families.
IBERDROLA’S VOLUNTEERING PROGRAM
Since 2006, Iberdrola encourages the Volunteering Program, a global project aligned with the group’s values and sustainability policy which has consolidated an international community that contributes to enhance the surroundings and the quality of life of the most vulnerable people.
ENERGY TRANSITION
Iberdrola México is fully aligned with the United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, a global initiative to prevent, stop and revert ecosystem degradation around the world.
Hence, the company continues to encourage energy transition, with an investment of 150,000 million euros until 2030 globally, and it has pledged to become carbon neutral in 2050 and to plant 20 million trees in the current decade.
