Under international standards such as the UN Guiding Principles and the OECD Guidelines, companies are expected to conduct human rights and environmental due diligence to identify, assess, mitigate and remediate any adverse human rights or environmental impacts that they cause, contribute to or are otherwise linked to. A failure to do so can expose a
Amendments to Mexican Mining and Environmental Laws: a Comprehensive Overview
On March 24, 2023, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador introduced a bill to reform and supplement various provisions in the Mining Law (Ley de Minería), National Waters Law (Ley de Aguas Nacionales), Ecological Balance and Environmental Protection Law (Ley General del Equilibrio Ecológico y la Protección al Ambiente), and