legislation

  • Forming high-level climate change committee and commission for the State of Chiapas (Conservation International)
  • Drafting model environmental regulations for local governments in the State of Oaxaca that operate under a custom-based legal regime (Conservation International)
  • Study of the (since repealed) Hazardous-Waste Regulations to the Mexican General Law of Ecological Balance (SEMARNAT)
  • Study and analysis of constitutional reforms to the National Water Law (SEMARNAT)
  • Study of private documents concerning the protection of land and wetlands, in collaboration with PRONATURA
  • Drafting, on behalf of the Commission for Environmental Cooperation of North America (CEC), a legal framework for regulating pollution, emissions, and transfer certificates
  • Study and constitutional analysis of the General Law on the Prevention and Integrated Management of Waste (SEMARNAT)
  • Devising, on behalf of SEMARNAT, draft reforms on waste management for adoption by four Mexican state legislatures—Nuevo Leon, Baja California, Guanajuato, and Quintana Roo
  • Preparing, on behalf of the PROFEPA Law Department, draft regulations on environmental audits
  • Preparing, on behalf of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), draft regulation for protecting mangroves and wetlands
  • Drafting, with WMO assistance, the first regulations in the Mexican State of San Luis Potosi on protecting aquifers
  • Designing, in collaboration with the Inter-American Development Bank, an environmental permitting project for Nicaragua
  • Drafting, in collaboration with the Inter-American Development Bank, environmental impact regulations for Cuba