Cases Mentioned

  • Amparo Trial 1854/2019 (13th District Court (Admin) First Circuit)
  • Amparo Trial 372/2020 (2nd District Court (Admin) First Circuit)
  • Amparo Trial (appeal stage) 238/2014 (3rd Collegiate Tribunal (Admin) First Circuit) (precautionary and prevention principles)
  • Amparo Trial 140/2016 (3rd Collegiate Tribunal (Admin) First Circuit)

For more country specific context and relevant national climate change law see:  https://climate-laws.org/geographies/mexico

This country report has been produced by Hayley-Bo Dorrian-Bak, C2LI Senior Research Assistant and Gastón Medici-Colombo, C2LI Legal Analyst with the collaboration of Rodolfo Godínez Rosales, C2LI National Rapporteur for Mexico and Manuel Tripp Rivera (Consultoría Jurídica y de Políticas Públicas: Sociedad, Ambiente y Territorio). The summary is based on Rodolfo Godínez Rosales, “Climate Change and the Individual in Mexico” in F. Sindico and M. Moise Mbengue, Comparative Climate Change Litigation: Beyond the Usual Suspects, Springer, 2021.