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Brazil, Public Civil Action before the 9th Federal Court of Porto Alegre. Associação Arayara de Educação e Cultura vs. Federal Government, Ambar Uruguaiana Energia S.A, Brazilian Institute of Environment (IBAMA), National Electric Energy Agency (ANEEL).
South America Brazil
Climate Change Advisory opinions Mitigation
Energy Coal and gas power plants
Environmental Impact Assessment Climate Impact Assessment
Pollution, Air
Procedural Issues Injunctions
Climate Emergency and Human Rights, Advisory Opinion AO 32/25, Inter-Am. Ct. H.R. (ser. A) No. 32 (May 29, 2025)
2025
Caribbean
Central America
North America
South America
Access to Information
Access to Justice
Climate Change Advisory opinions Greenhouse gases Mitigation Pivotal Cases
Courts International courts and tribunals
Defending Defenders
Economics Ecosystem Services
Environmental justice
Human Rights Inter-American human rights system
International Treaties United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
Procedural Issues
Right to ... Healthy Environment
Rights of Nature
Greenpeace Netherlands v. The State of the Netherlands, Case number: C/09/659832 / HA ZA 24-53 (28 January 2026), ECLI:NL:RBDHA:2026:1344
Caribbean Caribbean Netherlands
Access to Justice Attorney fees and costs
Climate Change Adaptation Mitigation Pivotal Cases
Marine and Coastal Coral reefs
Prácticas de abogacía indígena en Brasil /Indigenous Lawyering Practices in Brazil
South America Brazil
Access to Justice
Indigenous Peoples
Indigenous Lawyering Practices in Brazil Cover
Evaluations of Environmental Impact Assessment of Jamshoro Power Generation Project, October 2013, Addendum to Environmental Impact Assessment, Jamshoro Power Generation Project, October 2024 (30 April 2026)
2026
Caribbean
Access to Information
Sentencia 07294-1998, Sala Constitucional de la Corte Suprema de Justicia Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court of Costa Rica (13 de Octubre del 1998)
1998
Central America Costa Rica
Constitutions Right to Healthy Environment
Forests
Protected Areas
The Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court of Costa Rica considered a request to declare Article 71 of the Forestry Law unconstitutional.
Tata Housing Development Auth. v. Aalok Jagga, Civ. App. Nos. 8398-8399 of 2019 (5 November 2019)
2019
South Asia India
Biodiversity
Protected Areas
Public Trust Doctrine
Wildlife
In Tata Housing Development Auth. v. Aalok Jagga, the Supreme Court of India halted a large-scale residential housing development proposed within a buffer zone of a wildlife sanctuary in the state of Punjab.
Australian Competition and Consumer Commission v Clorox Australia Pty Limited [2025] FCA 357 (April 14, 2025)
2025
Pacific Australia
Plastic Cases
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) alleged violations of provisions of the Australian Consumer Law when Clorox represented that kitchen tidy bags and garbage bags were made of 50% recycled plastic waste collected from the ocean or sea.
Decision 28/1994. on environmental protection, Constitutional Court of Hungary (May 1994)
1994
Central and Eastern Europe Hungary
Protected Areas
Right to ... Healthy Environment
Case 28/1994 (V.20) in the Constitutional Court of Hungary addressed reductions in protection of land.
ASEAN Declaration on the Right to a Safe, Clean, Healthy and Sustainable Environment
Southeast Asia Brunei Darussalam Cambodia Indonesia Laos Malaysia Myanmar Philippines Singapore Thailand Viet Nam
Access to Information
Access to Justice ASEAN Declaration

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