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Climate Change and Sustainable Development in Brazilian Law
This article describes Brazil's 2009 National Policy for Climate Change (NPCC) and explores how the principle of sustainable development provided for in the Brazilian Federal Constitution can be used to correct omissions and imperfections in the NPCC's application when NPCC provisions come before the Judiciary branch, the Executive branch and regulatory agencies.
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- Academic Units
- Sabin Center for Climate Change Law
- Law
- Publisher
- Sabin Center for Climate Change Law, Columbia University
- Series
- Sabin Center for Climate Change Law White Papers
- Published Here
- March 10, 2016