Reflections on the pending agenda of criminal procedural law

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to identify the theoretical background of corporate environmental responsibility, as well as to conceptualize and establish its emergence, and to identify the international and Latin American regulatory framework that supports the environmental responsibility that companies should have with society and the environment. The documentary analysis method and the legal exegetical method were applied, with a qualitative approach, non-experimental design, under a transversal bibliographic documentary level. After the documentary review, it was observed that the study of corporate environmental responsibility is relatively new, the first studies being found in the nineties, and it is also considered as part of corporate social responsibility, on the other hand, it was found that the environmental responsibility that companies should have has its legal support in various international treaties and declarations. It is concluded that legal instruments are needed to make corporate environmental responsibility a mandatory act and not a voluntary act.