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http://dx.doi.org/10.17176/20220707-052522-0 https://verfassungsblog.de/guardian-of-the-amazon/ Guardian of the Amazon - On the Brazilian Supreme Court’s “Climate Fund Case” Decision Sarlet, Ingo Wolfgang Fensterseifer, Tiago eng 2022-07-06 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 Amazon Bolsonaro climate litigation environmental law Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 On 1 July 2022, the Brazilian Federal Supreme Court (STF) issued a momentous judgment in what has been one of the most important climate litigation cases before the court. In its decision, the STF elevated international environmental law treaties, such as the Paris Agreement, to the status of international human rights treaties in the Brazilian constitutional system – with wide ranging implications at the domestic level.