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A new climate litigation claim in Brazil raises the pressure for increased climate action and protection of the Amazon rainforest

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It contributes to increasing pressure against President Bolsonaro for widespread environmental damage across the country, resulting from a significant lack of climate action and the pervasive destruction of the Amazon rainforest. To align itself with the Paris Agreement, Brazil should actually increase its ambition.

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Back in the game: Brazil’s reengagement in climate governance

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In the United Nations Stockholm Conference (1972), Brazil highlighted poverty and underdevelopment as environmental issues and led countries in the Global South to resist their Northern counterparts’ untamed post-colonial agenda. Brazil famously hosted the UN Earth Summit in 1992 and Rio+20 in 2012.

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February 2020 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) orders granting three petitions for extensions of small refinery exemptions from renewable fuel standards. Montana Federal Court Agreed to Consider Keystone XL-Specific Documents and 2012 Biological Opinion in Challenge to Authorization Under Nationwide Permit. Chao , No. Williams , No.

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