U.S., Mexico Agree to Climate Change Partnership

The United States and Mexico on Thursday formally agreed to collaborate to fight climate change and encourage environmentally friendly energy production.

The two countries released a joint statement following a meeting in Mexico City between U.S. President Barack Obama and Mexican President Felipe Calderon. The two leaders leaders agreed to form a US-Mexico Bilateral Framework on Clean Energy and Climate Change that would broaden political and technical cooperation, according to the release.

The agreement calls for further discussion of strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Mexico will host a meeting of the major economies forum on climate change in the coming months, the release said. President Obama will host such a meeting in Washington D.C. at the end of April.

The United States also offered its support for Mexico to host the Sixteenth United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 16) in 2010, the statement said.