Jonathan Cocker is the published author of the Canada Chapter in the third edition of The Environment and Climate Change Law, which was released in late February, 2019. To read the publication in its entirety, and learn more about The Environment and Climate Change Law Review, click HERE.
On September 21, 2016, Brazil ratified the Paris Agreement executed under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) with the objective to promote greenhouse gases reduction as well as to avoid the increase of the global average temperature, among others. In such context, parties have committed to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions through the so-called Nationally Determined Contributions, which in the case of Brazil corresponds to a reduction of 37% of the 2005…