• FOSPA brings together nine countries in the fight for the Amazon

    With about five thousand participants, the event discussed climate change, the protection of the forest and its people. The Pan-Amazonian Declaration of Belém is announced [...]

    Law and Climate

  • Civil society mobilizes in awareness campaigns on Environment Day

    Organizations create actions, campaigns, shows, soirees and much more in different sectors of society The Environment Day, on June 5, included actions spread across the [...]

    Low Carbon Economy, Energy, Climate Policy, Inside iCS, Transport, Land Use and Food Systems, Communication and Engagement, Urban Amazon, Law and Climate

  • New sustainability rules for the insurance sector

    The sustainability risks consider climate, environmental and social factors and take effect on August 1 The Superintendence of Private Insurance (SUSEP) published Circular 666 on [...]

    Featured, Law and Climate, Low Carbon Economy

  • STF decides that the Paris Agreement is a treaty of human rights in Brazil

    Ten of the 11 justices from the Supreme Court follow the opinion of the rapporteur in a judgment considered historic A historic judgment for the [...]

    Climate Policy, Land Use and Food Systems, Featured, Law and Climate, Low Carbon Economy

  • STF gives Conama a deadline to publish a rule regarding air pollution

    The Federal Supreme Court judged the Direct Action for the Declaration of Unconstitutionality (ADI) no 6148/DF, which concerns Conama Resolution no 491/2018, between May 4 [...]

    Law and Climate, Transport

  • Business litigation as a way to maintain the rights of indigenous peoples

    A seminar in Rio de Janeiro included indigenous lawyers from all over Brazil for a laboratory about international perspectives and instruments of strategic litigation and [...]

    Law and Climate