At issue: Preventing that a Federal Order that changes the regime for protected areas in the Atlantic Forest allows the cancellation of environmental infraction notices for deforestation and the consolidation of occupation of protected areas.
At issue: Brazil’s federal environmental agency claims for a multiple times fined cattle raiser for illegal deforestation to compensate for climate damage.
At issue: Whether the permitting of open-pit coal project has been conducted in violation of the National Policy on Climate Change and without proper participation and prior consultation to traditional fishermen communities.
At issue: The Public Prosecutor’s Office seeks to declare the illegality of the construction of the Carbon Chemical Complex in Rio Grande do Sul and the implementation of the State Policy on Mineral Coal
At issue: Whether Brazil is violating fundamental rights and the national legal climate framework by decreasing mitigation targets in the country’s NDC.
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: Four political parties filed a Direct Action of Unconstitutional Omission to the Federal Supreme Court to compel the Ministry of the Environment to resume the activities of the Climate Fund.
At issue: Brazil seeks to hold a steel company and its manager liable for environmental damages (promoting illegal deforestation) and climate damages (greenhouse gases derived from the illegally sourced coal)