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ESG in the Mexican Mining Industry Part Three

Introduction

In the second part of the document “ESG in the Mexican Mining Industry”, we addressed the first three indicators related to the best environmental practices for the mining ...

ESG in the Mexican Mining Industry. Part Two

Introduction

The demands of modern life require the mining industry. The materials extracted from the ground and subsoil are necessary for the building of roads, electronics, and vehicles, ...

Does your business contribute to changing the world? Consider an ESG perspective.

The beginning of the year is full of resolutions and good wishes. For those of us who intend to fulfill them, resolutions must be translated into concrete goals and objectives, both for individuals ...

Crisis Mode: Have Your ESG Team on Speed Dial

Dear clients and friends,

We are pleased to share our contribution to Latin Lawyer’s Guide to Corporate Crisis Management (4^th ed.), titled "Crisis M ...

Fundamental rights of legal entities: an unsettled topic

This year, a Mexican federal court issued a set of controversial precedents regarding the rights of legal entities. These precedents are not generally binding, but they represent a setback in the p ...

Promoting energy autonomy while advancing environmental protection: a balancing act

One of the main objectives of Mexico’s current Federal Administration is to strengthen the energy sector, with particular emphasis on the State’s power and oil companies: Comisión Federal de E ...

RRM as an effective mechanism to enforce collective labor standards

Investment decisions taken by companies worldwide are increasingly based on (if not driven by) Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) criteria. Even though these criteria are a tool to evaluate ...

Lieferkettensorgfaltspflichtengesetz: a mouthful of new supply chain regulations

Alongside China, Germany is still considered to be the world’s leading exporting nation. Made in Germany has long been an indication of superior quality and standards. The great reputation of Ger ...

Privacy and the protection of personal data: new ESG parameters.

Recent decades have featured unprecedented growth and change across industries and the economy. New ways to do and fund business are rising with ever-greater speed thanks to globalization and new t ...

The role of arbitration in ESG disputes

Introduction

The Paris Agreement on Climate Change adopted in 2015 gave new impetus to the growing interest of the public agenda to ensure environmental and human rights protection, and int ...

Emissions Trading System: an instrument to promote the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions

In September 2016, Mexico ratified the Paris Agreement, thus committing to reducing by 2030 its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 22% compared to its baseline. Even though the Mexican government is ...

The fight against corruption: a corporate social responsibility

Corruption represents a global systemic problem. The Mexican Supreme Court of Justice (SCJ) has formally recognized that an organized civil society has a mitigating and reductive effect on corrupti ...

Stress, burnout and other problems brought to light by the pandemic and telework

More than a year has gone by since Mexico, like the rest of the world, became immersed in the ravages caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The productive sectors of our country sought, by various means ...

Competition regulation: a nonconventional tool for boosting ESG initiatives

ESG initiatives arise from the increasing awareness of the largest and most complex economic, environmental, and social challenges that we are facing at a global scale. The United Nations 2030 Agen ...

ESG in the Mexican Mining Industry First Section

Introduction

Gradually, the words expressed by the 1976 Nobel Prize in Economics, Milton Friedman, that “there is one and only one social responsibility for business: to use its resources ...

ESG Implications for Corporate Governance

A trend has grown during the past few years in investors from the international financial sector, ranging from big investment funds and institutional investors to individual investors (retail inves ...

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