The FGV Rio’s Centre for Global Law (CPDG) takes part in G20’s T20 Brazil Summit

On November 11, at the Itamaraty Palace, Professor Paula Wojcikiewicz Almeida, director of FGV Rio Law’s Centre for Global Law (CPDG), took part in the T20 Brazil Summit, event organised by Think20 (T20), an institution that engages G20 think tanks and research centres.

At the event, members of various national and international institutions discussed issues of relevance to the world's main economies. The debates were based on the policy briefs drawn up by the participating institutions and published by the T20. In addition, these contributions resulted in a Communiqué, a general document delivered to Brazil's G20 presidency in order to offer concrete and actionable policy recommendations for the issues discussed.

The CPDG contributed by elaborating and publishing the Policy Brief entitled ‘Challenges in the Multilateral Debate on International Forest Regulation: An Analysis of the Applicability and Impact of the EUDR for the G20’ in partnership with researchers from the Centre for Global Governance Studies at the Catholic University of Leuven (KU Leuven) Jan Wouters, Gustavo Muller and Maria Martins. The document provides a normative analysis of the European Deforestation-Free Regulation (EUDR), a unilateral initiative by the European Union (EU) that aims to regulate the entry of seven commodities into its territory when they originate from deforested areas. The results of the research provide a basis for suggestions and alternatives to incorporate specific demands from countries that, like Brazil, will be most affected by this new regulation.

In addition, the results of the research were presented at T20 breakout session ‘Conference on Neo-Protectionism and the Changing Nature of Global Value Chains: Lessons for the G20”, moderated by Professor Vera Thorstensen and also attended by Professor Otaviano Canuto.

The CPDG research themes related to international law and global governance with the following core dimensions: global regulation; global litigation; climate change and forest regulation; human rights and democracy.