The evidence on the environmental crisis occurring globally is unequivocal. The Mexican case is no exception. Although the national legal system for the protection of the environment and biodiversity is one of the most comprehensive in the world, the empirical evidence on the degree of environmental degradation and the loss of biodiversity clearly demonstrates the need to strengthen the access to justice and the adjudication processes through which cases involving the protection of the environment and human rights that depend on the quality of the environment and the conservation of biodiversity are decided.
To contribute to these ends, the Center inaugurates a research agenda on law and environment in which theoretical and empirical studies, seminars and publications will be developed regarding the scope and content of the human right to a healthy environment, as well as of the legal system for the protection of the environment and biodiversity. We will also address the perspectives for the exercise and protection of the rights of access to information, public participation and justice in environmental cases. A research agenda on environmental justice will also be developed to explore the connection of environmental problems with economic and social inequality from the perspective of the right to non-discrimination.