Brazil

This book is the first of its kind to examine the role of great powers in the international politics of climate change. Read more

In recent years, climate cases to combat illegal deforestation in the Amazon have begun to be brought before Brazilian courts. This paper focuses on a lawsuit filed by the Institute of Amazonian Studies against the Brazilian state. Read more

This report from Planet Tracker and the Grantham Research Institute sets out four steps Brazil could take to change direction, including issuing an innovative Deforestation-Linked Sovereign Bond tying interest payments to its success in reducing deforestation. Read more

In this book chapter the authors examine the context and specificities of climate change litigation in Brazil. Read more

This commentary by Joana Setzer and Délton Carvalho considers a lawsuit: Institute of Amazonian Studies (IEA) v. Brazil filed in... Read more

The first climate case to reach the Supreme Court in Brazil - brought by four opposition parties - had its public hearing in September. Joana Setzer, who made a presentation to the hearing, reports from the Court and considers the case’s wider significance. Read more

Brazil ended 2019 with virtually the same level of GDP that it had in 2012 and now the COVID-19 pandemic is likely to exert further downward pressure. Leveraging green finance may be the best way to tap more resources from domestic and foreign institutional investors now that sustainable investment is a growing necessity. In fact, the time is ripe for a green decade, argues Mario Mesquita in this post for the Sustainable Finance Leadership series. Read more

Alexandra Pinzon, Nick Robins and Gabriel Thoumi explore how investors in sovereign bonds can take action to confront the risks of deforestation, with a focus on Brazil. Read more