Legal Planet

APRIL 13, 2023

Climate litigation is gaining momentum in Brazil as a tool to protect the Amazon rainforest from illegal deforestation. The timing of these climate disputes is not accidental. The movement follows a worldwide upsurge in climate change-related cases, which have more than doubled since 2015.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Guest Commentary: Indonesian Human Rights Commission’s first human rights complaint on the impacts of climate change. Indonesia’s climate change context. Climate change is already causing widespread environmental impacts in Indonesia. By Margaretha Quina and Mae Manupipatpong*.

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Breezometer

JUNE 7, 2022

We’re already experiencing the impact of climate change across the world; now an update from the IPCC suggests weather extremes could become the norm in the near future. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is the United Nations body for assessing the science related to climate change.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Brazil’s National Policy on Climate Change ( NPCC and subsequent regulation ) was adopted in 2009 based on Brazil’s international commitments with the UNFCCC. by 2020 against a 2010 baseline. According to the petitioner, as a signatory to the Paris Agreement Brazil has committed to various duties to mitigate climate change.

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Edouard Stenger

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Here are the news that caught my interest as the annual climate change conference, COP23, is currently taking place in Bonn, Germany. It is safe to write that since Hurricanes Maria and Irma and this year’s climate horror stories , climate change is not a distant threat anymore but a day-to-day reality.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 10, 2019

the highest surge in fires since 2010. Furthermore, the mass-burning of the Amazon rainforest is emitting incredible amounts of carbon, multiplying the effect of deforestation by. On June 28, 2019, President Bolsonaro cooperated with the European Union (“EU”) and other MERCOSUR nations on the EU-Mercosur trade agreement.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. climate litigation charts. HERE ARE THE ADDITIONS TO THE CLIMATE CASE CHART SINCE UPDATE #130: FEATURED CASE. and non-U.S.

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