South American Climate Court Cases

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View In: South American Climate Court CasesInterfaith Power & Light, plus Ecuadorian indigenous communities convince court to close copper mine, and it’s International Beaver Day!

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View In: South American Climate Court CasesThe plan was to meet in Altamira, Brazil, and travel 1,000 miles across the northern Amazon as a kind of people’s court. The judges would take testimony over 10 days, much like a United Nations fact-finding delegation, and deliver their findings at the 10th Pan-Amazon Social Forum in the provincial cit...

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View In: South American Climate Court CasesIn a global first, Brazil's supreme court has declared the Paris Climate Agreement a human rights treaty. Within Brazil, the court ruled, the climate pact should supersede national law. Read more on E360 →

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View In: South American Climate Court CasesIndigenous groups in Ecuador are blocking new mining and drilling projects, empowered by a February ruling from the country's Constitutional Court, which requires that the government seek the consent of Indigenous people for projects that impact their land. Climate advocates are calling on other countrie...

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View In: South American Climate Court CasesWild animals possess distinct legal rights, including to exist, to develop their innate instincts and to be free from disproportionate cruelty, fear and distress, Ecuador’s top court ruled in a landmark decision interpreting the country’s “rights of nature” constitutional laws.   The 7-2 ruling hande...