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Brazilian courts have begun accounting for climate damage
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Brazil is a pioneer in the treatment of climate disputes and provides judges with tools to assess damage caused by deforestation. Activists and representatives of civil society around the world have turned to the judiciary to hold large polluting companies responsible for tightening climate change. So far, it is not yet [...] The post Brazilian justice is making progress in assessing climate damage first appeared on latinapress News.
Brazilian courts have begun accounting for climate damage
Across the world, people have tried to use the law to hold corporate polluters accountable for climate change. No lawsuit has yet succeeded in directly linking a company’s global emissions to specific climate impacts. But the London School of Economic’s latest annual report on climate litigation notes that “important progress is being made in cases involving climate damages for localised environmental damage” – particularly in Brazil. Brazil has…
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