Subject: FW: Status of Bordo Poniente project.
From: Amitabh Desai <[email-masked]>
To: "[email-masked]" <[email-masked]>, Angel Urena <[email-masked]>, Valerie Alexander <[email-masked]>, Elizabeth Bibi <[email-masked]>
Cc: Logan Koffler <[email-masked]>, Bruce Lindsey <[email-masked]>, Laura Graham <[email-masked]>, Doug Band - PC <[email-masked]>, Justin Cooper - PC <[email-masked]>, Hannah Richert - PC <[email-masked]>, "John Podesta ([email-masked])" <[email-masked]>, "[email-masked]" <[email-masked]>, "Terry Krinvic" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2011 18:39:52 -0500

Please see below and attached - the City of Mexico finally has gotten to place where they are moving forward with closure of the Bordo Poniente landfill, among the largest landfills in the world, ultimately reducing Mexico City's greenhouse gas emissions by about 25%. The last line of the Mayor's statement (attached) mentions the "Clinton Foundation," but I assume that C40 folks will try to take credit for this progress. It would be good for WJC to visit this next time he's in Mexico City. And if there's any way for us to highlight this in advance of a visit via a statement or release or anything so that WJC gets credit for being a long-time advocate/supporter/helper for this project, I'd vote to explore that. This is a big deal and WJC should get credit. Happy to help as needed. Sincerely, Ami

-----Original Message-----
From: Rafael Ramos 
Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2011 7:19 PM
To: Karen Luken; Amanda Eichel - Contact; [email-masked]; Corrie Martin; [email-masked]
Cc: Ricardo Cepeda
Subject: RE: Status of Bordo Poniente project.

Breaking news!

The Waste Commission has matched all the requests to the financial model. It's only a matter of hours to complete the explanatory texts agreed in this morning meeting with the Investment Unit. Hopefully the final document will be sent tomorrow!

From the City Hall,

Rafael

-----Mensaje original-----
De: Karen Luken 
Enviado el: jueves, 01 de diciembre de 2011 06:08 p.m.
Para: Rafael Ramos; Amanda Eichel - Contact; [email-masked]; Corrie Martin; [email-masked]
CC: Ricardo Cepeda
Asunto: Re: Status of Bordo Poniente project.

This is outstanding news. Thank you to everyone for their hard work and commitment

----- Original Message -----
From: Rafael Ramos
To: Karen Luken; Amanda Eichel - Contact; Marinello, Mike <[email-masked]>; Corrie Martin; Jay Carson <[email-masked]>
Cc: Ricardo Cepeda
Sent: Thu Dec 01 19:03:20 2011
Subject: Status of Bordo Poniente project.

Team,

Yesterday we attended Banobras' (the federal development bank) Sub-committee meeting in which the City's Bordo Poniente landfill project was approved to receive federal funds and financing from the Bank. 

The presentation of the Bordo Poniente project during this meeting was contingent upon receiving the final approval of the Investment Unit of the Treasury Secretary (Federal Tax & Budget Secretary). This approval has not yet been received due to minor pending issues with the cost-benefit Concept Document. However, due to the importance of this project, the Sub-committee board accepted the project under these circumstances. 

The City's Finance Secretary and the Banobras´ Water, Energy and the Environment Manager, have been leading these discussions that have been ongoing with the Director of Banobras, the Energy Regulatory Commission, and other federal offices. 

We are happy to communicate that the final outcome of this meeting was the approval of the Bordo Poniente project to receive a federal grant. The final amount has not been decided but it may be around 26 million USD (please keep this confidential). 

This approval continues to be contingent upon receiving the approval from the Investment Unit, but a general exhort from the board was made to accelerate this review and approval of the project. 

Today we were part of the attendees of the meeting with the Investment Unit to discuss the final comments to the project document and the approval will be issued early next week. 

The final meeting of the Banobras Committee to assign the funds to the city will be held on Dec. 14th. 

That puts the City in the position of releasing the tender in the third week of December or first days of January, most likely the latter since the end of the year is a lazy time. 

Rafael Ramos|C40 in partnership with the Clinton Climate Initiative | Mexico City Director
Office: +(5255) 5661 6310 | Mobile: +(521) 55 3884 4410 | [email-masked] |www.C40.org