Abstract

GOMEZ HERRERA, Diego Aarón. Right to climate information in Mexico. Estud. derecho inf. [online]. 2024, n.17, pp.165-176.  Epub Sep 06, 2024. ISSN 2594-0082.  https://doi.org/10.22201/iij.25940082e.2024.17.18786.

Today, it is common to hear people associate almost any abnormal weather event with climate change. However, climate change and, in general, climate, are concepts that require extremely specific information -technical knowledge-; a type of knowledge people have underestimated. Recently, the law has begun to consider the climate and climate change as facts with legal effects. Even more: the law has begun to pay attention to the relationship between climate and human rights, since this is part of the environmental conditions that make it possible -or impossible- to enjoy those rights. In particular, there is an indissoluble relationship between the human right to information and climate: if we do not have access to climate information, we simply cannot know the climate and, consequently, we cannot estimate and know the effects that it has on the way people enjoy their rights. With this in mind, this paper shows how the Mexican law establishes the State’s obligation to generate and make public the country’s climate information. Despite the above, it will be shown how this information is rather outdated, and even non-existent in some cases. For this reason, it is concluded that in Mexico the right to climate information is not fulfilled due to obsolete data and, in some regions, the non-existence of this information.

Keywords : climate information; absence of information; right to information; climate; and human rights.

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