"The country can't claim a climate leadership role at COP30 while harming the environment and trampling human rights in the process, they say."
"Independent experts with the United Nations Human Rights Council on Friday publicly called on President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil to veto parts of a new law that would carve giant loopholes in the country's environmental regulations.
The expert group of independent human rights rapporteurs said the law would roll back environmental protections, which would violate basic human rights non-regression principles. As written, the law would threaten 'the human rights to life, health, an adequate standard of living, and a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment,' the experts wrote in a statement.
The bill at issue in Brazil, known as the General Environmental Licensing Law, was passed by the legislature on June 17. Lula has until August 1 to approve the measure, or to veto all or parts of it. The law reduces environmental reviews and public input opportunities for many activities, including road construction, logging and agriculture and some mining and dam construction.
Rapporteurs carry out special projects for the United Nations Human Rights Council with mandates to 'report and advise' on country or theme-based human rights issues. They can visit countries and intervene to address reported violations, as well as concerns of a broader nature, by sending formal communications to states and others."
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