Mexico’s new president backs hydrogen

The country’s first female leader signals greater support for low-carbon energy, including hydrogen, as part of wider shift in energy policy

Incoming Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum may still have a few more months to wait before taking office, but she has already indicated her energy policy will have a very different flavour to that of her predecessor. Exiting Mexican president Andres Lopez Obrador made it his mission to revive flagging domestic crude production. The government invested heavily in indebted state oil and gas firm Pemex, while the president also funnelled billions into a refinery in the president's home state. In contrast, Sheinbaum has suggested far more wide-ranging government support for the energy transition. In a previous life, she won the Nobel Peace prize as part of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climat