Legal Planet

APRIL 13, 2023

Climate litigation is gaining momentum in Brazil as a tool to protect the Amazon rainforest from illegal deforestation. Deforestation in the Amazon decreased significantly (by over 70%) during Lula’s last two terms, while it jumped (about 60%) under President Bolsonaro.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 1, 2021

by 2020 against a 2010 baseline. According to the petitioner, as a signatory to the Paris Agreement Brazil has committed to various duties to mitigate climate change. While Brazil achieved its emission reduction goal from the NPCC, the reduction targets of deforestation in the Amazon rainforest were not fulfilled.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 27, 2021

The alarm bells are deafening,” he warned, “and the evidence is irrefutable: greenhouse-gas emissions from fossil-fuel burning and deforestation are choking our planet and putting billions of people at immediate risk.”.

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Legal Planet

JULY 5, 2023

According to the Center for International Environmental Law as of April 2023, the World Bank “has financed and incentivized up to $165 billion in fossil fuel investments since the Paris Agreement was signed [in 2015].” percent of GDP in 2020 and are expected to increase to 7.4 trillion or 6.8

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 12, 2021

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. The rise of rights-based climate litigation. In Future Generations v. Relevance for future claims.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 17, 2023

June 2023 was the hottest June on record, with the majority of locations around the world experiencing temperatures much higher than in recent decades (1991-2020). C above preindustrial levels, the limit that island nations and allies fought for so hard in the Paris Agreement. (It It is important to note that the 1.5°

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 17, 2021

This official inner circle is now doing the business of the three separate international treaties in force for climate change: the 1992 Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC), the 1992 Kyoto Protocol (Yes, it still exists and is in force, although the United States is not a party), and the 2015 Paris Agreement.

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