By Gabriel Wedy
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.
Read the article Climate Change and Sustainable Development in Brazilian Law in Columbia Law School's Scholarship Archive.