Mexico’s recently elected President Claudia Sheinbaum was just named as one of the 100 most influential climate leaders in business for 2024 by Time magazine. With a PhD in energy engineering and extensive experience rolling out renewable energy projects as mayor of Mexico City, there are high hopes that she will be the one to put Mexico on track for a green transition. However, many expect Sheinbaum to follow in the footsteps of former President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO), who led the Morena political party for the last six years and focused heavily on the nationalization of Mexican energy and strongly backed oil and gas.
As an academic, Sheinbaum contributed to two major reports for the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Then, as mayor of Mexico City, she launched the city’s first electric bus fleet and developed one of the world’s biggest urban solar projects at the Centro de Abasto…
