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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. The movement follows a worldwide upsurge in climate change-related cases, which have more than doubled since 2015. Accordingly, any Brazilian law or decree contradicting the Paris Agreement may be invalidated.

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COPs as Three-Ring Circus

Legal Planet

For two or three weeks, climate politics gets intense worldwide news coverage. This year’s meeting was also “CMP16” (the 16 th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol of 1997), and CMA3 (the 3 rd meeting of the Conference of Parties to the Paris Agreement of 2015). Then things move on.

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

Law Columbia

According to the petitioner, as a signatory to the Paris Agreement Brazil has committed to various duties to mitigate climate change. While these targets were established voluntarily, they became mandatory once the Paris Agreement was promulgated as national law in Brazil through an executive decree.

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Business and industry must rise to the challenge of climate change

Physics World

That increase will breach the targets agreed by the 2015 Paris climate agreement set at COP21 and bring widespread devastation and more instances of extreme weather. Let’s hope our political leaders in Glasgow can make that a reality.”. C above pre-industrial levels within the next two decades. Global goals.

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Major developments for global climate litigation: the Human Rights Council recognizes the right to a healthy environment and the Committee on the Rights of the Child publishes its decision in an international youth climate case

Law Columbia

While the resolution is not legally binding, it represents a significant political statement that could shape global standards. After the adoption of the Paris Agreement, which included a notable recognition of the human rights dimensions of climate change, courts have seen a rights turn in climate litigation.

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Environmental Law: Government and Public Policy Towards the Environment

Environmental Science

As water and water runoff does not respect political boundaries, international laws on conservation and use are common and applied, especially where there is shared use and responsibility or competing claims to it. Risks to such species include overhunting/overfishing or gathering, toxic waste, a changing environment, deforestation and so on.

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Global Perspectives on a Global Pact for the Environment

Law Columbia

Except for the 2015 Constitution of Nepal, none of the constitutions of South Asian countries includes a justiciable right to a healthy environment. A duty imposed for more directly attributable pollution under The Pact, such as deforestation or oil spills, may be easier to define and therefore to enforce on corporations.

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