Brazil

Sustainability-linked bonds (SLBs) are a new and increasingly popular kind of conservation finance. They emerged in 2019 through private sector... Read more

This blog post summarises a forthcoming article in the Georgetown Journal of International Law. The article considers the implications of... Read more

Reducing global forest losses is essential to mitigate climate change and its associated social costs. Multiple market and non-market factors... Read more

The authors of this paper unpack the contested nature of legitimacy by examining the governance of transboundary climate risks (TCRs) in agricultural supply-chains. Read more

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