Gender into Urban Climate Change Initiative

Status Quo of Pilot Cities – Mexico

At the state level, the population in condition of poverty represented 48.4% of the total population, of which 28.6% are vulnerable due to social deprivation; only 15.4% are considered not poor or vulnerable (CONEVAL, 2018).

4.3. Climate hazards

The Atlas of Dangers and Risks of the Municipality of Tlaxcala (2018) presents the risks posed by geological and hydrometeorologicalcauses, whose dangerous effects could be intensified by climate change. Among the most important are floods and electrical storms, while hailstorms and low temperatures come in second place. Recently, cold waves have become more frequent and intense, and have had a greater impact on the population. The phenomena that present lesser dangers are droughts, hot waves, snowfalls and tropical cyclones. In addition, according to the Atlas, floods have a predominantly anthropogenic origin resulting from a faulty (or sometimes non-existent) storm drainage system.

Source: Ministry of Government-CENAPRED, 2019, Nacional Risk Atlas

4.4. Greenhouse gas emissions

By law, each state in the country has a State Climate Change Action Program. The Tlaxcala Program was prepared by the Universidad Autónoma de Tlaxcala and was published in 2014. It contains the 2005-2009 State Inventory of Greenhouse Gas Emissions (IEEGEI), whose base year is 2005 and was prepared based on the methodologies of the 1996 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and its Good Practice Guidelines for the six greenhouse gases listed in Annex A of the Kyoto Protocol.