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Cooperation for Climate Mitigation in Amazonia: Brazil’s Emerging Role as a Regional Leader

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2016

Maria Antonia Tigre
Maria Antonia Tigre*
Affiliation:
Cyrus R. Vance Center for International Justice, New York, NY (United States (US)).Email: matigre@nycbar.org.
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Abstract

Since their inception, climate change negotiations have stalled because of the scope of parties’ mitigation responsibilities under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The concept of common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities (CBDR-RC) became a core principle of the framework to ensure consensus on a global climate policy in 1992 and to promote differentiation. By letting each country assess its current responsibilities and capacities for climate mitigation through their nationally determined contributions (NDCs), the Paris Agreement has built on the principle of CBDR-RC and promoted self-differentiation. As the concept evolved, the role of emerging economies has been a particular focus of discussions. Academia is still grappling with the revised meaning of CBDR-RC and the newly introduced NDCs. This article contributes to the discussion by analyzing the role of emerging economies in climate governance through the lens of regional responsibility. In particular, it discusses how cooperation can be a more effective way to ensure differentiation, especially by distinguishing emerging economies from other developing countries with fewer capacities. The article uses the Amazon rainforest as a case study, discussing Brazil’s role within the region. Building on lessons from regional schemes that have successfully promoted climate mitigation, the article looks at the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization (ACTO) as an avenue for enhanced cooperation at the regional level.

Keywords

DifferentiationCBDRRegional cooperationSupranational organizationsClimate changeMitigation
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Anniversary Issue Articles
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Transnational Environmental Law , Volume 5 , Special Issue 2: Fifth Anniversary Issue , October 2016 , pp. 401 - 425
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© Cambridge University Press 2016 

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117 In the original: Estrategia Regional de Cambio Climatico (ERCC).

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135 Guyana with 7,279.77; Bolivia with 6,530.17.

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145 Ecuador, ‘Ecuador’s Intended Nationally Determined Contribution (INDC)’, 2015, available at: http://www4.unfccc.int/submissions/INDC/Published%20Documents/Ecuador/1/Ecuador%20INDC%2001-10-2015%20-%20english%20unofficial%20translation.pdf.

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148 Colombia and Peru could increase contributions to 30%, while Ecuador could increase to 37.5–45.8%.

149 Ecuador, n. 145 above, pp. 7–8.

150 Colombia, n. 143 above, pp. 8–9.

151 Guyana, n. 140 above, p. 3.

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153 Ibid., p. 3.

154 Brazil, Decree No. 6,263 (Plano Nacional sobre Mudança do Clima), 21 Nov. 2007.

155 Brazil, Plano Amazônia Sustentável, MMA, 2008, available at: http://www.mma.gov.br/estruturas/sca/_arquivos/plano_amazonia_sustentavel.pdf.

156 Ethical Markets, ‘Brazil Commits to 80% Reduction in Amazon Deforestation by 2020’, 27 Oct. 2009, available at: http://www.ethicalmarkets.com/2009/10/27/brazil-commits-to-80-reduction-in-amazon-deforestation-by-2020. See also Vieira, n. 152 above, p. 14.

157 Brazil, Law No. 12,187/2009; Regulatory Decree No. 7,390/2010.

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164 See the example of forest monitoring in Section 4.4.

165 Brazil, Law No. 12,651, 25 May 2012, available at: http://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/_ato2011-2014/2012/lei/l12651.htm.

166 Brazil, Decree No. 6,263 (National Plan of Climate Change), 21 Nov. 2007, available at: http://www.mma.gov.br/estruturas/smcq_climaticas/_arquivos/plano_nacional_mudanca_clima.pdf.

167 Romeiro & Biderman, n. 147 above.

168 Protocol of Amendment for the Creation of the Organization of the Amazon Cooperation Treaty (ACT Amendment Protocol), agreed 14 Dec. 1998. Brazil, Legislative Decree 1999, 25 Sept. 2002.

169 Treaty for Amazonian Cooperation (Amazon Cooperation Treaty (ACT)), 3 July 1978, available at: http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/entri/texts/amazonian.cooperation.1978.html.

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171 ACTO, ‘Agenda Estratégica de Cooperação Amazônica’ Nov. 2010, available at: http://otca.info/portal/admin/_upload/apresentacao/AECA_prt.pdf (in Spanish).

172 Ibid., p. 52, item H.

173 ACTO, ‘Monitoreo de la Cobertura Forestal en la Región Amazónica’, Nov. 2014, available at: http://otca.info/portal/admin/_upload/publicacoes/446-Monitoreo.pdf (in Spanish).

174 Ibid., p. 4.

175 ATCO, ‘El Cambio Climático en la Región Amazónica’, 2014, p. 17, available at: http://www.otca.info/portal/admin/_upload/publicacoes/531-libro.cambio.climatico_esp.pdf (in Spanish).

176 The ACTO was only present at COP-21, in Lima (Peru).

177 IPCC, Climate Change 2007: Mitigation. Contribution of Working Group III to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (Cambridge University Press, 2007)Google Scholar.

178 UNDP, n. 75 above, p. 46.

179 Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries (REDD+): see UNFCCC Secretariat, REDD+ Platform, available at http://redd.unfccc.int.

180 UNDP, n. 75 above, p. 288.

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