Guadalajara Metropolitan Area

Mexico
Summary
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    Population 4865122
  • km 2
    Area 3265.453
  • MXN
    GDP 640 Billion
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    Targets by N/A N/A
Targets

Targets by Guadalajara Metropolitan Area

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Actions
State Program for Action on Climate Change of Jalisco
Municipal Climate Action Plan of Zapopan
Municipal Climate Action Plan of Guadalajara
Integrative University Program for Energetic Transition - Guadalajara Metropolitan Area
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  • Type: Action plan
  • Status: Under construction / set up

Through this program, the University of Guadalajara assumes its responsability as an educational institution, it joins the global concern for the conservation and sustainability of the environment.

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Sectors:
  • Residential
  • Transport
  • Other Emissions
Line 3 of the Light Rail Line system - Guadalajara Metropolitan Area
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  • Type: Technical / Infrastructural
  • Status: Under construction / set up

In the Guadalajara Metropolitan Area, as a result of its urban expansion, the rate of motorization with excessive use of the car, and with the deterioration of public transportation, presents a critical urban mobility problem, with increasing congestion, pollution and insecurity are severely affecting the productivity of the urban economy and quality of life of its inhabitants.

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Sectors:
  • Transport
Renewable energy in Guadalajara - Guadalajara Metropolitan Area
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  • Type: Technical / Infrastructural
  • Status: Under construction / set up

A serie of coordinated actions directed towards renewable energy for street lighting as well as for public buildings. These include a plan to power street lighting with solar panels, as well as the transition to power public buildings with solar panels, this will be implemented first in the municipal markets, Mercado Corona as the main one. Additional to the previous technological advances, energy efficiency regulation will be set up

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Sectors:
  • Commercial
local action
Mibici- public bicycle program - Guadalajara Metropolitan Area
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  • Type: Technical / Infrastructural
  • Status: In operation

Mibici is a public transportation system located in the metropolitan area of Guadalajara, based on the rental of bicycles available in stations arranged as a network in the most important urban centralities of the city.
Currently the system works in the central areas of the municipalities of Guadalajara, Zapopan and Tlaquepaque. It contains nearly 250 stations connect with the mass transport systems

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Sectors:
  • Transport
Waste management (Clean centrals in Guadalajara) - Guadalajara Metropolitan Area
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  • Type: Technical / Infrastructural
  • Status: In operation

Guadalajara Puntos Limpios are a serie of facilities distributed in the public space in the center of the municipality where the trash can be categorized in four specialized containers to recieve high volume of waste. All solid waste deposited in the correct container, stop being trash and become raw material for the recycling industry. This also reduces the materials being transported from residencial collection and the periodicity of recolection. The areas with the hightes generation and opportunity of waste are evaluated to implement the clean point, the goal for the end of 2017 is to have 180 points installed

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Sectors:
  • Waste
  • Transport
local action
Plan for Energetic Efficiency and Environmental Performance in the Public Administration - Guadalajara Metropolitan Area
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  • Type: Action plan
  • Status: In operation

The municipality of Tlaquepaque has developed a plan that aims to reduce the energy consumption, identify opportunities to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through improving and changing the consumption within the public building and infrastructure of the municipality. Among its objectives are to reduce electric energy and water consumption for municipal owned vehicles by 10%. Energy efficiency of the pumps used for public water supply is addressed as well. It also includes proposals for using renewable energy sources

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Sectors:
  • Other Emissions
local action
30 km/h zones in downtown - Guadalajara Metropolitan Area
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  • Type: Strategy / Policy
  • Status: In operation

Guadalajara's 30 km/h zones, as in other cities around the globe, are strategies for traffic calming in specific parts of the city, mainly by reducing the road space for motor vehicles, signaling and adapting the texture of the road. In the metro area there are a total of 10 polygons of these zones, most of the municipality of Guadalajara, but also in Zapopan and Tlajomulco. This is influencing cars to move at a speed of 20 km/h or below. Overall this brings the benefit of increasing walking and cycling, reduce motor vehicle traffic volumes, thus road crashes and greenhouse gas and air pollutants. This action has its legal base on Jalisco's Sectorial Program of Sustainable Movility.

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Sectors:
  • Transport
local action
Street lighting replacement in Guadalajara - Guadalajara Metropolitan Area
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  • Type: Technical / Infrastructural
  • Status: In operation

The renovation of luminaries with LED technology after the replacement of 40 thousand units (just over 50% of the streets of Guadalajara municipality, which will allow an approximate monthly saving of one million 563 thousand 700 kwh, representing 30 percent of the energy used, registering an annual saving of 72 million pesos

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Sectors:
  • Other Emissions
local action
Integrated Public Transport System for the MAG - Guadalajara Metropolitan Area
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  • Type: Technical / Infrastructural
  • Status: Under construction / set up

As part of Jalisco´s General Program for Transport, the state has programmed a serie of actions, including infrastructure and route distribution to integrate the different public transport modes. The program includes a collective transport system, and coordinates the mass transportation modes, including the integration of the LRL´s Line 3 (describe in Action 1), proposes the expansion and modernization of the Line 1 and the Macrobus BRT system, as well as creating the Peribus BRT system.

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Sectors:
  • Transport
local action
Integrative University Program for Energetic Transition - Guadalajara Metropolitan Area
  • Start year:
  • Type: Action plan
  • Status: Under construction / set up

Through this program, the University of Guadalajara assumes its responsability as an educational institution, it joins the global concern for the conservation and sustainability of the environment.

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Sectors:
  • Mobility
  • Green built infrastructure
  • Energy systems
  • Poverty and access to basic services
Inventories
Community inventories

The Guadalajara Metropolitan Area has reported 1 Community emission inventory, since 2016. In its latest inventory, compiled in 2016, the Agriculture, forest and other land use, Agriculture, forest and other land use, Stationary energy, Waste management and Transport are identified as key emission sources.

GHG emission from Guadalajara Metropolitan Area
GHG inventory in 2016
Government operations inventory

GHG emission from Guadalajara Metropolitan Area
GHG inventory in
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