The law was developed to ensure environmental sustainability and to combat ecological degradation. The law’s objectives include: 1. Encourage state’s climate change education in order to reduce vulnerability, 2. Promote convergence mechanisms between society and government to develop adaptation and mitigation measures to combat climate change, 3. Build adaptation capacity to cope with climate change, 4. Consolidate a number of actions and mitigation activities to ensure energy efficiency and natural resources sustainable management, and 5. Reduce climate change vulnerability. The law also establishes an Interministarial Climate Change Commission for the State. Under Article 9 mitigation activities are described.