At issue: Whether the Minister of the Environment committed high crimes and misdemeanors (crime de responsabilidade) by failing to implement policy that proactively achieves Brazil's targets for reducing GHGs in violation of Brazil's international commitments to combat climate change, in particular the Paris Agreement.
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.