Extractive Industries

We promote the respect and compliance of the regulations by those involved in extractive activities in the country in order to safeguard the right to enjoy a healthy and balanced environment. We also seek that both the owners and the government agencies as well as citizen become aware of the importance of using systems of corporate management that include the environmental performance as a part of their operations. In this way, those operations won’t have a negative impact on ecosystems and therefore will not violate human rights.

The development of extractive industries in Peru entails a challenge for the government in environmental terms. If these industries do not respect the normative framework in force, their uncontrolled impact could be catastrophic for all environmental components, people’s health, and the very progress of the country. 

Thus, our line of work here is focused on tasks such as oversight, legal research, and rights defense due to the likely threats that a poor environmental management of extractive industries might pose.

The following are some of our key actions:

• We are drafting normative proposals at legal and regulatory levels, as well as public policies to improve the legal corporate-environmental system, promoting the compliance with environmental regulations.
• We promote proposals that strengthen environmental institutions in the country through legal opinions and analysis, highlighting the importance of complying with environmental regulations for the continuity of extractive industries in the market.
• At citizen and government level, we advocate the rejection of normative proposals seeking to ease environmental standards and reverse the progress achieved in the development of environmental institutions.
• We have been accredited as third parties in administrative procedures to guarantee the defense of environmental rights through contributions in specialized fields.

As a result of our work, we have been accredited as third parties in eight administrative disciplinary procedures at the OEFA (the Peruvian Environmental Evaluation and Auditing Organism), and we managed to have Congress admit a draft bill for the response during environmental emergencies.