Abstract
Brazil endorsed the COP-21 ratified in 2016, setting national targets for reducing emissions. However, Brazil initially committed to cutting emissions thirty-seven percent by 2025. Until 2016, Brazil achieved significant emissions cuts, thanks to efforts to reduce deforestation in the Amazon, and promoting energy generation from renewable sources as biomass or hydroelectric power, achievements that could be hindered by the new environmental policies. The last episode of massive fires in the Amazon basin rainforest has threatened the global effort to reduce the climate change impact, and has worsened the effect of Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions on the planet, while new policy goals also undermine Brazilian agro-environmental protection. Since the atmosphere is considered part of the Global Common, as are sea, seabed, and biodiversity, challenges impacting the circulation of GHGs have a global effect. Unlike treaties covering human rights, which have immediate effect in the Brazilian legal order, new agreements following the COP of UNFCCF, such as the COP-21, require ratification of the Parliament under the Brazilian Constitution and, therefore, are subject to approval of the National Congress which can oppose its adoption. In the case of the COP 21, the President submitted the text for consideration to the National Congress which formally adopted the Legislative Decree No. 140 in August of 2016, entering into force in November of that year after the deposit of instruments of ratification. And according to International conventions, the damage of Global Common obliges to ensure prompt, adequate and effective compensation.
Presenters
Pedro Diaz PeraltaVisiting Fellow, Yale School of the Environment - Michelle L. Bell´s Research Group, Yale University, United States Claudia Ribeiro Pereira Nunes
Student, PhD, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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Presentation Type
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Theme
Technical, Political, and Social Responses
KEYWORDS
Environmental Policy, Climate Change, COP21, Rainforest, GEE, Socioeconomic Responsibility
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