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'SAO PAULO, May 29 (
Reuters) - Latin America's human rights court holds a
final hearing in Brazil on Wednesday in a case that's part of a global wave of
climate litigation, as several international courts prepare first-time opinions
on what countries must do to combat climate change.
The rulings could also set off a wave of new litigation brought by citizens,
businesses and governments.
Enforcement of such decisions is largely untested, however. A Swiss
parliamentary committee last week rejected a ruling for example by a top
European court that said Switzerland had violated the human rights of its
citizens by not doing enough to prevent climate change.
The Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR), which holds jurisdiction over
20 Latin American and Caribbean countries, hopes to issue its advisory opinion
by year's end, top justice Nancy Hernandez Lopez told
Reuters. The final
hearing on Wednesday is being held in the Amazon rainforest city of Manaus.
Already last week, the international tribunal set up under the U.N. Law of the
Seas decided that carbon emissions amount to marine pollution and that
countries must go beyond the Paris Agreement to protect oceans.
Next year, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) is expected to have its say
and could attempt to draw the earlier court decisions into one global ruling
applicable to all U.N. members.
"The reason for (the wave of litigation) is people's deep frustration that
their elected representatives are not taking rapid and fair climate action,"
said Lucy Maxwell, co-director of the nonprofit Climate Litigation Network.
"The climate litigation landscape is really broad and diverse and massively
growing."'
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