Mexican President Felipe Calderon has announced to unveil a plan to introduce energy-saving light bulbs all over the nation as a part of an extended campaign against climate change.

While talking to reporters, the President said, “The goal is to create a great movement calling on all Mexican families to use energy-saving bulbs to replace ordinary lights.”

Further, the president also told media that this will help the families save money, lessen administration subsidies to electricity companies, and will also reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

If compared with simple bulbs, the energy-saving bulbs will only require a quarter of energy to generate the same light and their lifespan will be ten times more than ordinary lights.

According to Calderon, when put into operation, the project will save 47MW of power, showing a reduction of 24,000 tons of CO2 emissions a year.

The plan is an addition of the national pilot project called "Green Light" according to which more than 1.15 million energy-saving bulbs will be distributed to households and businesses in five states of the country.

Mexico's attempts to fight climate change have been acknowledged by the UN climate change conference presently in process in the Danish capital of Copenhagen, which gave Mexico the right to host the 2011 conference.