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Brazil Advances in Climate Change Litigation

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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. Treaties on environmental law are a type of human rights treaty, and, for that reason, enjoy supranational status. candidate at Berkeley Law.

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Three River Communities, Worlds Apart, Tell Stories of Indigeneity in the Age of the Anthropocene

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It travels north along the Mahakam River, and two days later arrives in the central highlands of Borneo’s ancient rainforests. The Dayak-Bahau man had been arrested for protesting the mass deforestation of his ancestral lands, Borneo’s tropical rainforests, which account for six percent of the world’s biodiversity.

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Guest Contributor Kate Mackintosh: 200 Words to Save the Planet—The Crime of Ecocide

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The fact that actions in one nation, or in many, affect people across the globe, argues for the kind of universal jurisdiction which international criminal law introduces. Drawing on established notions of international criminal law, the drafting panel has come up with the following definition: Ecocide. This is deliberate.

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Governors Present Bold Vision for Investing in a New Forest Economy

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Increasing fire, drought, and deforestation continue to push the region closer to a “ tipping point where it can no longer survive as a rainforest.” The global implications of this – coupled with other tipping points across the world’s ecosystems – are staggering to contemplate.

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Mexico y el Cambio Climático

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The geography is extremely diverse, featuring high mountains, deserts, and rainforest. Mexico’s per capita figure, however, conceals a high degree of income inequality, with rural regions and areas in the south much poorer than urban areas like Mexico City. Because of its geography, Mexico is vulnerable to climate impacts.

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Centering Public Health at the UN Climate Talks

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I attended the climate conference as part of the UCLA Law delegation. To me, environmental law and climate policy are about people, protecting people, and advocating alongside those disproportionately affected by climate change. candidate (‘24) at UCLA Law. Indeed, it was a first. Meleana Chun-Moy is a J.D. Download as PDF

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Earth system tipping events now seem inevitable – what does this mean for climate governance?

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For example a rainforest turns into a grassland, or an ice sheet melts completely. A tipping point is a system threshold beyond which change becomes self-perpetuating until a qualitatively different stable state is reached. Such shifts are non-linear, and practically irreversible.