UDTR — Radar mondial des droits de la Nature

The Rights of Nature: Another Legal Avenue for Climate Litigation in Brazil?

Identification

Clé publique

doi:10.1163/9789004690974_015

Auteurs

Fernanda Cavedon-Capdeville · José Rubens Morato Leite · Humberto Filpi · Tônia Dutra

Année déclarée

2024

Langue déclarée

en · und

Type source

book-chapter

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2026-11-09T19:04:47.867024+00:00

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2026-11-10T16:58:51.359738+00:00

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Résumé documentaire — langue originale

This study addresses the development of an ecocentric perspective in climate litigation in Brazil, based on the developments of ecological law and rights of nature in Latin America, fostered by the dialogue of national courts and with the Interamerican Court of Human Rights. The analysis focuses on the climate case ONG Costa Legal and others v Municipality of Florianópolis and others (‘Lagoa da Conceição Case’), which aims to overcome a structural problem affecting the ecological integrity of the Lagoa da Conceição ecosystem, based on its recognition as a subject of rights. This is the only Brazilian climate case that integrates the argument of rights of nature. The first part of the chapter explores the contributions from Ecological Law to anchor the ecocentric perspective of climate litigation, contextualized in Latin American experiences on ecological constitutionalism and the recognition of the rights of nature. Common features and key arguments of ecocentric climate cases are highlighted. The second part discusses the ecocentric legal avenues to climate litigation in Brazil, considering how elements from ecological law already invoked in Brazilian case law could inspire climate litigation, and stressing the ecocentric perspectives in the Lagoa da Conceição case. The case’s approach is carried out through (i) ecocentric and ecological law arguments, (ii) dialogue of courts in the development of the ecocentric perspective, and (iii) socio-ecological governance structures. Even if the case is still pending, the current achievements, as the elaboration of a Judicial Protection Plan for Lagoa da Conceição aiming at propose measures do deal with climate change and designate a guardian of the ecosystem’s rights, confirm the possibility of a nature’s rights-based climate litigation in Brazil, inspired both by the Brazilian legal and jurisprudential frameworks aligned with ecological law and by the dialogue of courts and experiences of climate litigation with an ecocentric perspective in Latin America.

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OPENALEX

W4410722831

DOI

10.1163/9789004690974_015

OPENAIRE

doi_________::a47048c184f6c118eb049eeff56fc6dd

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Famille documentaire

Chapitre d’ouvrage

Types déclarés par les sources

Part of book or chapter of book · book-chapter

Juridictions étudiées — sources explicites

BR

Éditeurs

Brill | Nijhoff

Entités naturelles mentionnées

Écosystème

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Description bibliographique du livre

Éditeur

Brill | Nijhoff

Pages

294-313

Disponibilité non établie

Sources

Crossref · Document 1

OpenAIRE · Document 1

OpenAlex · Document 1 · Document 2

• DOI · https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004690974_015
• OpenAlex · https://openalex.org/W4410722831

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