Climate change is no longer just a policy issue for governments and conferences; it has become a legal battleground. Around the world, citizens, activists, and even communities have increasingly turned to courts to demand stronger climate action and accountability. The number of climate change lawsuits...
Notwithstanding the request by most international and local environmental organization for Lula to veto the full bill, the partial veto is however a pragmatical solution which was chosen by Brazil President Lula to avoid a stronger backfiring by the Congress which voted to approve the...
Asia contributes over 50% of global CO₂ emissions, according to the International Energy Agency's (IEA) CO₂ Emissions in 2023 report, with China responsible for around 28%, as reported by East Asia Forum (2025). According to the IEA report, Global CO₂ emissions in 2023 totaled approximately...
Climate change is no longer just a policy issue for governments and conferences; it has become a legal battleground. Around the world, citizens, activists, and even communities have increasingly turned to courts to demand stronger climate action and accountability. The number of climate change lawsuits...
Mariana Dam collapse is the Largest Environmental disaster in Brazil, and the largest environmental class action in the world. On November 5, 2015, the Mariana Dam Collapse entered Brazilian history as the largest mining-waste disaster in history, affecting 50 municipalities. On the occasion, 45 million...
REPowerEU is a Programme to protect Europe from energy scarcity in the absence of Russia as a reliable energy partner and ensure long-term cooperation for energy security (and green energy transition) in Europe. It came to life in 2022 and its announcement on 8th March 2022...
On July 17, the Brazilian Congress approved Public Law 2159/211, often referred to as the "devastation bill." Many experts see this as the most significant rollback of environmental protections since the 1988 Constitution, which established modern environmental safeguards in Brazil. Although President Lula has 21...
Between 2024 and 2025, carbon markets have been shaped as much by politics as by policy. Major global economies, namely the EU, UK, and US, have taken divergent paths in the governance, ambition, and international positioning of their climate mechanisms. The UK's post-Brexit isolationist approach...
One of the most concerning problems today is excessive greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. To try to tackle this problem many governments use carbon pricing, a policy that assigns a cost to the release of GHG. This post will present an overview of the United Kingdom's...
Carbon pricing is a market-based instrument that aims to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in an economy. Two widely used forms of carbon pricing are carbon tax and a cap-and-trade system. A carbon tax is a fee imposed on burning carbon-based fuels, such as coal, oil,...
Today, 29thJuly 2021 we have reached the Earth Overshoot Day (EOD), the calculated illustrative calendar date on which humanity's resource consumption for the year exceeds Earth’s capacity to regenerate those resources that year. The term "overshoot" represents the level by which human population's demand overshoots...
After two days and two nights of difficult negotiations (from 23/07/2021 to 24//07/2021), the G20 in Naples on Climate, Environment and Energy has concluded with an historic agreement. The green light for the Climate report has come the day after the go-ahead for the Environment,...
Earlier this month, the Brazil space agency has disclosed that in the last year the Amazon forest has reported the biggest deforestation scale since 2008 in terms of square km of forest loss. Environmental activists, investors and governments are raising their voices to ask for...
Britain is at a crossroads as it prepares to leave the European Union’s trading regime at the end of the year. UK Chancellor Sunak has made a major announcement on green finance, setting out his post-Brexit vision for the city of London as a green...