What happened
SE Advisory Services is sponsoring the Women in Green Business Awards 2026. Ahead of the awards, its Mireille Meneses Campos spoke to BusinessGreen about the route that took her from international trade law into environmental work.
Campos said her original interest was legal rather than environmental. While studying international trade, she encountered environmental disputes through Moot Court exercises and World Trade Organization simulations. Those experiences, she said, showed that resolving such disputes calls for knowledge of ecosystems, places and communities alongside legal rules.
From trade law to carbon policy
While studying abroad, Campos was introduced by a professor to different carbon-pricing mechanisms. That exposure led to her 2012 dissertation, which considered carbon border adjustment mechanisms.
She subsequently joined Mexico’s Ministry of Environment, SEMARNAT, in what she described as her earliest green-economy post. There, her work included assisting the negotiations that led to the Paris Agreement.
The account sets out a career path spanning international trade, carbon-policy research and public-sector climate diplomacy. It also identifies academic work as an early stage in Campos’s move into the environmental field.
Why it matters
Campos’s experience connects trade-law training with climate-policy work. Her account highlights that environmental disputes can involve legal frameworks as well as ecological, geographic and community considerations.
Carbon pricing and border adjustment mechanisms feature in her academic background, while the Paris Agreement negotiations feature in her work for SEMARNAT. Together, these elements show the range of issues she encountered before her current involvement in the awards sponsorship.
The interview was published in the context of the Women in Green Business Awards 2026 and SE Advisory Services’ support for the event. It provides a professional example of how a legal specialism can develop into work on environmental and climate questions.
What readers should note
The available information confirms the 2026 awards sponsorship and Campos’s career milestones: study of environmental disputes in trade-law settings, a dissertation on carbon border adjustments, and support for Paris Agreement talks at Mexico’s environment ministry. Readers following the awards can use the interview as background on the sponsor representative’s stated professional journey.
