Environment

Market

October 9, 2026 · 5 min

The Cancún Financial and Technology District hub, Quintana Roo: declared in August, questioned in September

The newest hub covers 60.76 ha in Benito Juárez and was declared in the DOF on 7 August 2026. On 7 September President Sheinbaum said it can hardly be authorized where there is jungle and that the site is not yet defined.

Market

October 9, 2026 · 6 min

The Parque Industrial Bajío hub, Michoacán: 342 ha beside Lake Cuitzeo, waiting for its environmental permit

The Michoacán hub was the first to be formalised and is named, on purpose, Parque Industrial Bajío. It has 342 ha in Zinapécuaro, named developers and 12.9 MW published, but as of October 2026 its environmental impact statement is still unresolved.

Market

October 9, 2026 · 5 min

The Topolobampo hub, Sinaloa: gas at the gate, conflict in the bay

The Topolobampo hub covers 277.58 ha in Ahome, with up to 10 MW and the El Encino–Topolobampo gas pipeline at the site boundary. Along with Cancún, it is the only hub without a located SE–state agreement, and its surroundings carry the conflict over the ammonia and methanol plants.

Sustainable development

October 4, 2026 · 9 min

What Mexico signed: agreements that bind and agreements that guide

Paris, Escazú, Convention 169, the USMCA, the new agreement with the European Union. They do not all carry the same weight. A guide to tell the treaty that a judge can apply from the declaration that only guides, and what each one asks of an energy or industrial project.

Thesis

September 16, 2026 · 5 min

The Bajío's air: three problems, three maps

Salamanca breathes sulphur dioxide, Celaya breathes particulates, and ozone is rising across the whole corridor. It is not one air-quality problem, and each one has its own investment.

Regulation

September 3, 2026 · 6 min

Three environmental and social changes that set the size of an energy project

A draft new LGEEPA, the MISSE already in force and an environmental impact regulation that did not change. For on-site generation, the 0.7 MW threshold turns out to be an environmental and social boundary as well.

Environment

July 21, 2026 · 5 min

Cars and the air we breathe in the Bajío

León had 69 days with particulates above the standard in 2024, and Celaya reached a purple alert in 2025. Cars do not explain everything, but they dominate carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides and ozone.

Environment

March 10, 2026 · 5 min

Four states, three models: how to prepare a project an environmental fund will actually finance

Environmental money exists in three of the four Bajío states, but each fund rewards a different applicant and project. A comparison, which fund for what, and seven steps to a fundable project.

Environment

February 24, 2026 · 4 min

Aguascalientes: the environmental fund the law calls for, but we cannot yet see

Guanajuato, Jalisco and Querétaro turn vehicle emissions testing into environmental projects. Aguascalientes law calls for an environmental fund, but we found none operating in public sources.

Environment

February 10, 2026 · 5 min

Querétaro: an environmental fund open to companies, academia and civil society

Querétaro's environmental fund is not a trust but an instrument with annual rules, and any individual or organisation can submit a project. Who can apply, what it funds and how projects are scored.

Environment

January 27, 2026 · 5 min

FEPAJ: Jalisco's environmental fund and its bet on co-funding

Jalisco created its environmental fund 16 years after Guanajuato, with a different design: open to NGOs and companies, and built to pull in federal and international money.

Environment

January 13, 2026 · 5 min

FOAM: how Guanajuato funds its municipalities' environmental projects

Since 2000, part of what drivers pay for their emissions-test sticker in Guanajuato has funded garbage trucks, emissions inventories and municipal solar panels. This is how FOAM works.