Climate Change Mitigation in Brazilian Law: Foundations and Policies

This book examines how climate change significantly impacts the public interest of national states, affecting a wide range of human rights, economic activities, development projects, and security.This book highlights the complexity of the legal discipline of climate change, which is a polycentric phenomenon because its causes and possible responses are subject to various decision-making levels and are cumulative over time.Additionally, this book addresses the need for norm creation in a scenario of risk and scientific uncertainty, as well as the socio-political conflicts generated. Given these factors, this book emphasizes the role of national states in the legal regulation of climate change, as, although it is a global problem, they are the ones who set emission reduction targets and regulate the behavior of individuals and corporations to achieve them.In recent years, various climate laws have been created or amended in several countries, indicating a push for juridification around t