Construction of the Rayados Football Stadium in La Pastora Park

The Mexican company Femsa, whose beer operations were acquired by Heineken in 2010, is planning to build a football stadium in La Pastora Park in Monterrey, Mexico. Consequences of this construction would be biodiversity loss, deterioration of soil and water quality in the park, elevated contamination levels, and more. Furthermore, local citizens’ collectives and environmentalist groups claim that the stadium, which is a private enterprise, will be built on public property so that the future costs for decommissioning will have to be borne by the state. With the construction of the football stadium in La Pastora park, Femsa may risk breaching the sustainability criteria on environmental care and community involvement laid down in the OECD guidelines, the UN Global Compact, the UN CEO Water Mandate and Femsa’s own sustainability scheme. Although Heineken is not legally responsible for the building of the Rayados football stadium, it is a stakeholder with high commercial interests in the matter, its vice president is at the same time CEO of Femsa, and Heineken and Femsa are linked through Femsa’s high percentage of shares in the Heineken Holding. Therefore, the business relationship between Heineken and Femsa is such that Heineken has a responsibility to avoid causing or contributing to the adverse impacts of the project, to which it is associated through its commercial interests and its business relationship.

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