Launch of the Ebook "Climate Litigation in Brazil (...)"

Launch of the Ebook “Climate litigation in Brazil: legal arguments for the inclusion of the climate variable in environmental licensing.” Public class.

The Research Group on Law, Environment, and Justice in the Anthropocene (JUMA/NIMA/PUC-Rio), the Brazilian Association of Members of the Public Ministry for the Environment (ABRAMPA) and PUC-Rio Publishing House held the open class “Environmental Law and Climate Change: Assessment of Climate Impacts in Environmental Licensing.” The launch of the Ebook "Climate Litigation in Brazil: Legal Arguments for the Insertion of the Climate Variable in Environmental Licensing,” was part of this course.

The results of JUMA/NIMA/PUC-Rio’s research were discussed together with ABRAMPA, which has been working on developing a reference term and a risk matrix that can be used to analyze the climate impacts of activities and projects still undergoing the environmental licensing process.

Presenters: Danielle de Andrade Moreira (JUMA/NIMA/PUC-Rio), Alexandre Gaio (Prosecutor at the Public Ministry of the State of Paraná, Vice-President of ABRAMPA and Coordinator of the Climate Change Policy in Action Project) and Eline Martins (Consultant for the ABRAMPA Climate Policies in Action project).

Moderator: Caio Borges (Coordinator of the Law and Climate Program at Instituto Clima e Sociedade - iCS)

Joint event: PUC-Rio (JUMA/NIMA, Editora PUC-Rio and CCE) and ABRAMPA.

Links: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFTuPm_jGLg (part 1)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juARZPDwgL8 (part 2)

Support: Instituto Clima e Sociedade (iCS)