http://dx.doi.org/10.59704/efbd6d4f1a0f61e8 https://verfassungsblog.de/carbon-majors-in-brazilian-courts/ Carbon Majors in Brazilian Courts - Brazilian Prosecutors Take Shell to Court for a Share of a Flood Lehmen, Alessandra eng 2026-10-11 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 Brazil Climate Crisis climate litigation Fossil Fuel Loss and Damage Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 On October 9, 2026, Brazil’s Federal Prosecutor’s Office and a nonprofit environmental association, Instituto Preservar, sued Shell Brasil Petróleo Ltda. for damages caused by the April and May 2024 floods in my home state of Rio Grande do Sul. The filing now places Brazil among the jurisdictions where public enforcers sue fossil fuel producers, which the litigation over the 2024 floods had not previously included. It also offers a concrete setting for the interplay between the causal nexus of Brazilian environmental liability and the attribution of a climate disaster to an emitter.