Brazil delays enabling legislation on climate change
Sergio Abranches
After a fast-track approval of the climate change bill, its enabling legislation is deadlocked at the Civil Household. More »
Human and economic consequences of extreme natural events
Sergio Abranches
Extreme natural events may be a source of huge human and economic losses, although they are not, in themselves ‘disasters’. A disaster happens when an extreme natural event reaches a populated area. More »
The Copenhagen Accord lives
Sergio Abranches
While the U.S. and the European Union embraced the Copenhagen Accord with no reserves, the BASIC countries said the Accord is not legal. The only legal instrument they accept is the Kyoto Protocol. Does it really matter if they adhere and record their quantitative voluntary actions? Is this an important divide between developed and emerging powers? More »
Brazil still has to enable climate change law
After approving the climate change law the Brazilian government now has yet to approve the rules that will allow its enactment.
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Climate change and global health security
Humans are today a major factor of global warming and climate change. Humans are also victims of radical environmental changes. Both statements are true and correlated. They mark the complex interactions between humans an the environment. The issue that most directly reflects these interactions is health.
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Can the US Congress set the global climate change agenda?
APEC has become the opportunity for the US to try to recast the expectations about Copenhagen. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had already forewarned that the US was “100-percent committed to creating a framework agreement, not a legally binding treaty.”
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