How green was our border…

The Border Governor’s Conference (The 10 border states – Arizona, Baja California, California, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo Leon, New Mexico, Sonora, Tamaulipas, and Texas – together exercise an economy that ranks third in the world for size), and hosted by California Governor and  former “illegal alien” Arnold Schwarzenegger,  seeks to Terminate some common problems facing the two countries, as they meet to discuss ways of “Building Green Economies“.

Mexico’s top environmental official Juan Rafael Elvira Quesada, who heads the Secretariat of the Environment and Natural Resources, proposed the creation of state climate change plans to deal with the environmental impacts of global warming in a coordinated way.

He said the environmental agreement that Mexico signed recently with the state of California could be applied all along the border strip.

It would include greenhouse gas emissions inventories at the local, state and regional levels, and, said the Mexican

secretary, the states south of the border could adopt California’s low-carbon air quality standard.

In addition, he suggested the establishment of 15 crossborder pollution control districts and also proposed building desalination plants in coastal areas to ensure drinking water supplies for the arid region.

Perhaps they’ll get rid of their official SUVs and find alternative transportation solutions.  (Photo of “los Gobernators” from Telecinco.com.es)