Legal Planet

APRIL 13, 2023

The Amazon rainforest on the Urubu River. 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. Photo by Andre Deak via Flickr.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 1, 2021

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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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 12, 2021

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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A Greener Life

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Cop stands for conference of the parties under the UNFCCC, and the annual meetings have swung between fractious and soporific, interspersed with moments of high drama and the occasional triumph ( the Paris agreement in 2015 ) and disaster (Copenhagen in 2009). Why do we need a Cop – don’t we already have the Paris agreement?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 2, 2022

They prop up fossil fuel industry infrastructure as the industry itself buys political influence to blunt and block any unified strategy for a fossil phase-down. At the beginning of COP 27, the Rainforest Action Network, in a report endorsed by many environmental groups, found that Bank of America, J.P.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

The majority said it “reluctantly” concluded that “the plaintiffs’ case must be made to the political branches or to the electorate at large” and “[t]hat the other branches may have abdicated their responsibility to remediate the problem does not confer on Article III courts, no matter how well-intentioned, the ability to step into their shoes.”

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