Summary
In December 2019, Congressman Max Agustín Correa Hernández (of the parliamentary group of the Morena party) introduced a proposal to the Local Congress regarding a federal reform to articles 1, 2, 3, 4, and 27 of the Constitution of the United Mexican States to include the rights of nature. Deputy Correa explained that the initiative relates human rights to the rights of indigenous, peasant and Afro-descendant peoples and establishes a new paradigm with an understanding of the dangers of anthropocentric governance in the context of anthropogenic climate change, alleviated by giving ‘nature’ ‘human rights’. In July 2021, Mexico’s Congress agreed to consider the proposal and was sent to the Senate for consideration.