Legal Planet

DECEMBER 17, 2021

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.

Paris Agreement 130

Paris Agreement Climate Change 2030 2015 130

Law Columbia

DECEMBER 1, 2021

According to the petitioner, as a signatory to the Paris Agreement Brazil has committed to various duties to mitigate climate change. Through the Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) published in 2016, Brazil committed to reducing GHG emissions by 37% by 2025 and by 43% by 2030 as compared to a 2005 baseline.

Rainforest 40

Rainforest Deforestation Paris Agreement 2005 40

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.”

2020 40

2020 Fossil Fuels Climate Change Greenhouse 40