Climate Change and Forests
The urgency and gravity of climate change impacts push for effective mitigation and adaptation actions. Calls for climate justice are multiplying while the complexity and the range of the issues demand for assorted actions in many instances.
Considering the normative gap, some State and NSAs are stepping up to deliver proper responses to the climate emergency.
State and Non-State Actors are increasingly seeking climate justice through judicial means. Adjudicatory bodies are being called upon to address the lack of effective actions of climate change mitigation and adaptation measures.
Research Projects
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Climate Change Litigation in International Courts and Tribunals
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Multilevel Governance and Regulation of Forests: the impact of the EU Regulation on Deforestation-free Products in Brazil
Projects on the EUDR
Monitoring the Regulatory Impact of the European Union's New Regulation on Deforestation-Free Products in Brazil
The project aims to analyse the challenges of the European Deforestation-Free Regulation (EUDR) and assess its impact on Brazil as a producing country.
Particularly, it is divided in its analysis of the Amazon region and the State of Rio de Janeiro, which are respectively funded by funded by the “Fundo de Pesquisa e Inovação da FGV” and the “Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro” (FAPERJ). The project aim is to (i) identify the forestry regulations - international, regional and domestic - applicable to Brazil, (ii) analyse the normative and social legitimacy of the EUDR (iii) assess the impact it will have on Brazil, and (iv) highlight challenges and opportunities for both Brazil and the European Union (EU) within the framework of forestry regulation.
Main products
Book “The Normative and Regulatory Challenges for the Implementation of the European Deforestation-Free Regulation in Third Affected Countries: A Brazilian Case-Study”. (forthcoming)
Theoretical report mapping and analysing international, EU and Brazilian legislation applicable to forest ecosystems. (forthcoming)
Report analysing the normative ‘legitimacy’ of the EUDR creation process. (forthcoming)
Event/workshop with researchers, interviewees and other stakeholders. (forthcoming)
Journal article discussing the main results of the project. (forthcoming)
Two Policy Papers containing suggestions, alternatives and proposals for Brazil, the EUDR’s implementation and global forest governance. These papers focus, respectively, on the case of the Amazon Region and the State of the Rio de Janeiro. (forthcoming)
Monitoring the extraterritorial effects of European Union (EU) sustainability norms: challenges for the indirect implementation of the EUDR in Brazil
The project investigates the challenges of indirect implementation in Brazil of (i) the European Deforestation-Free Regulation (EUDR), as lex specialis, and (ii) the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence (CSDDD), as lex generalis. The research evaluates the effects of these extraterritorial norms, mapping related international, national and sub-regional legal instruments, as well as proposing practical solutions to the bottlenecks identified.
Main Products
Policy Brief covering: a) normative and regulatory analysis of rules with extraterritorial effect, in particular the provisions and interaction between the EUDR and the CSDDD; b) normative analysis of the EU/Mercosur Partnership Agreement, examining the rules under the scope of the commercial part of the Partnership Agreement between MERCOSUR and the EU and their intersection with the EUDR; c) identification of possible scenarios - contentious and non-contentious - and proposing recommendations with a view to indirect implementation of the rules in Brazil, focusing on the case study of the coffee sector. (forthcoming)
Regulating Forests: Monitoring the Impacts of the EUDR platform.
Fact sheet to guide Brazilian producers and exporters in the operationalisation of due diligence requirements. (forthcoming)
Lecture/Webinar with the presence of EU and/or Brazilian experts, with the aim of informing and critically analysing the challenges and bottlenecks of the EUDR, aimed at Brazilian producers and exporters, as well as interested members of civil society. (forthcoming)