nam 22 uu 4500 10.59704/efbd6d4f1a0f61e8 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 261011s2026||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.59704/efbd6d4f1a0f61e8 doi eng 342 23 Lehmen, Alessandra Author aut Carbon Majors in Brazilian Courts - Brazilian Prosecutors Take Shell to Court for a Share of a Flood Lehmen, Alessandra Verfassungsblog 2026-10-11 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier 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. CC BY-SA 4.0 Brazil Climate Crisis climate litigation Fossil Fuel Loss and Damage Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/carbon-majors-in-brazilian-courts/ raw object