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Brazil Advances in Climate Change Litigation

Legal Planet

Climate litigation is gaining momentum in Brazil as a tool to protect the Amazon rainforest from illegal deforestation. Lula, who served as President of Brazil from 2003 to 2010 (and is the first President in the country to return for a third term), is known for supporting policies to protect the environment and disenfranchised social groups.

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The Rights of Nature — Can an Ecosystem Bear Legal Rights?

Law Columbia

In 2010, the City Council of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania unanimously passed an ordinance recognizing the Rights of Nature as part of a ban on shale gas drilling and fracking. The court ordered the government to develop and implement action plans to address deforestation. Colombia : Future Generations v. Ministry of the Environment.

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An encroaching desert intensifies Nigeria’s farmer-herder crisis

Circle of Blue

At least 3,641 lives were lost to the crisis between 2016 and 2018, according to Amnesty International , with over half of the fatalities recorded in 2018 alone. In 2010, satellite image analysis shows an inhabited village in Sadan. of global greenhouse gas emissions. Photo by Murtala Abdullahi. Photo by Kunle Adebajo.

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Guest Commentary: Indonesian Human Rights Commission’s first human rights complaint on the impacts of climate change

Law Columbia

Gigatonnes of CO 2 equivalent emissions from 1990 to 2018. Most of Indonesia’s greenhouse gas emissions come from the Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry (LULUCF) and energy sectors. Indonesia is now the seventh largest cumulative emitter in the world, having emitted 41.59

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February 2020 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

Circuit Declined to Speed Up or Slow Down Challenges to Withdrawal of California Waiver and Preemption of State Authority to Regulate Vehicle Greenhouse Gas Emissions. Washington Supreme Court Invalidated Regulation of Indirect Greenhouse Gas Emissions. Trump , No. 4:19-cv-00028 (D. Environmental Council of Sacramento v. C076888 (Cal.

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