Expanding the use of natural gas tapped from Mexico’s abundant reserves would help to reduce the carbon intensity throughout many areas of the economy, said Jeremy Martin, vice president of Energy & Sustainability at the Institute of Americas. During the upcoming elections, however, Mexicans will decide whether they want more of the same or a return to a competitive bidding process for oil and gas development. 

“The Claudia Sheinbaum campaign seems to be messaging ‘continuity with change’ but in the energy sector it appears more continuity than change, certainly in terms of the primacy of state-owned enterprises,” Martin said in an interview with NGI’s Mexico GPI. 

“As for the other side of things, there’s a lot of people in the pro-business groups that are...