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Guest Commentary: Brazilian’s first tort climate case for illegal deforestation in Amazonia

Law Columbia

hectares (the equivalent of 4,650 football fields) between 2011 and 2018. A new case filed by the ATF through the Ministério Público Federal (MPF) in federal court targets a Brazilian farmer (Dauro Parreiras de Rezende) who was single-handedly responsible for the deforestation of 2,488.56