At issue: The Public Prosecutor’s Office seeks to declare administrative improbity and removal of the Minister of Environment for the practice of intentional acts that violated the constitutional duty to protect the environment.
At issue: Seeking to prevent the continuation of illegal deforestation in the Chico Mendes Extractive Reserve (RESEx), to recover the deforested areas and to hold the defendants responsible for their failure to protect the environment.
At issue: Whether the Brazilian Constitution guarantees a fundamental right to a stable climate and whether the Brazilian government may be compelled to meet emission and deforestation reduction goals
At issue: Whether Brazil's failure to curb deforestation and resulting climate change violates fundamental constitutional rights of indigenous peoples and current and future generations.