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Modernizar para proteger: os desafios do licenciamento ambiental brasileiro

O licenciamento ambiental no Brasil, uma ferramenta essencial para o desenvolvimento sustentável, tem sido alvo de intensos debates. Com a aprovação do...

Brazil Environment

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Koury Lopes Advogados

Actualizaciones en materia Ambiental en Latinoamérica: marzo y abril 2025

La presente alerta tiene por objeto destacar las noticias más relevantes en materia ambiental en Latinoamérica durante marzo y abril de 2025.

Worldwide Environment

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Greenberg Traurig, LLP

Normas de Información de Sostenibilidad

El 13 de mayo de 2024, el Consejo Mexicano de Normas de Información Financiera y Sostenibilidad (CINIF) publicó las Normas de Información de Sostenibilidad (NIS), mismas que entraron en vigor el 1 de enero de 2025.

Mexico Environment

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Greenberg Traurig, LLP

MMA Opens Public Consultation On Regulation Of The National Policy On Payment For Environmental Services

Brazil's Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change (MMA) has launched a public consultation on the draft decree intended to regulate Law No. 14,119/2021...

Brazil Environment

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Mayer Brown

Dia do Meio Ambiente: o Direito como ferramenta do desenvolvimento sustentável

Brazil Environment

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Koury Lopes Advogados

Brazil's National REDD+ Commission Approves Resolution On Safeguards In Public Lands And Collective Territories

Brazil Environment

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Mayer Brown

Resumen De Reformas Y Publicaciones Ambientales Relevantes En México- Abril 2025

Mexico Environment

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Greenberg Traurig, LLP

Resumen De Impuestos Ecológicos En México

Mexico Environment

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Greenberg Traurig, LLP

Nueva Ventanilla Digital Única CONAGUA

Mexico Environment

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Greenberg Traurig, LLP

Brazil Introduces Regulations On The Importation Of Solid Waste And Tailings

Brazil Environment

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Mayer Brown

Decreto regulamenta importação de resíduos sólidos e reforça proteção ambiental

Brazil Environment

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Koury Lopes Advogados

Brasília Em Pauta – Edição Nº 200

Brazil Environment

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Mayer Brown

Decree Regulates Solid Waste Imports And Strengthens Environmental Protection

Brazil Environment

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Koury Lopes Advogados

IMO Approves New Regulatory Package To Decarbonize International Maritime Transport

Brazil Environment

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Mayer Brown

Reformas a la Ley Federal de Competencia Económica: Cambios en materia de notificación de concentraciones

Mexico Anti-trust

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Greenberg Traurig, LLP

FinCEN Uses The FEND Off Fentanyl Act For First Time To Prohibit Funds Transfers With Three Mexican Financial Institutions

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Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

Agentes de IA: qual o caminho para mitigar riscos na era da autonomia tecnológica?

Brazil Technology

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Koury Lopes Advogados

Tax Law Highlights – The Repetro In The Tax Reform Context (Video)

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Mayer Brown

Real Estate 2025

Dominican Republic Real Estate

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Guzman Ariza Attorneys At Law

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Modernizar para proteger: os desafios do licenciamento ambiental brasileiro

O licenciamento ambiental no Brasil, uma ferramenta essencial para o desenvolvimento sustentável, tem sido alvo de intensos debates. Com a aprovação do...

Brazil Environment

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Koury Lopes Advogados

Insight: Mercado Brasileiro De Dívida Sustentável – Perspectivas Regulatórias Local E Internacional

As emissões de dívidas sustentáveis por empresas brasileiras nos mercados doméstico e internacional têm aumentado substancialmente.

Brazil Commercial

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Mayer Brown

Capital Markets Insight: The Brazilian Sustainable Debt Market – A Cross-Border Regulatory Perspective

Sustainable debt issuances by Brazilian companies in both domestic and international markets have steadily increased. Abroad, the combined volume of green, social, and sustainability bonds issued by Brazilian corporates...

Brazil Commercial

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Mayer Brown

Construction Law 2025

Dominican Republic Real Estate

GA

Guzman Ariza Attorneys At Law

Seis razões destacam relevância jurídica da agenda ESG para empresas

Brazil Commercial

KL

Koury Lopes Advogados

Actualizaciones en materia Energética en Latinoamérica: marzo y abril 2025

Worldwide Energy

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Greenberg Traurig, LLP

Actualizaciones en materia Ambiental en Latinoamérica: marzo y abril 2025

Worldwide Environment

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Greenberg Traurig, LLP

Brasília Em Pauta – Edição Nº 204

Brazil Litigation

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Mayer Brown

Normas de Información de Sostenibilidad

Mexico Environment

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Greenberg Traurig, LLP

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Clean Air / Pollution

Las Complicaciones Y Desafíos De Los Impuestos Ecológicos En México

Los impuestos ecológicos en México, aun cuando buscan responsabilizar a los agen¬tes contaminantes y promover la inversión en tecnologías limpias, su efectividad está en entredicho debido a la falta de transparencia ...

Mexico Environment

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Chevez Ruiz Zamarripa

Presentación De La Agenda Socioambiental 2024

Durante septiembre y octubre de 2024, la Dra. Alicia Bárcena, titular de la Secretaría de Medio Ambiente y Recursos Naturales ("SEMARNAT"), presentó la Agenda Socioambiental 2024: diagnósticos y propuestas.

Mexico Environment

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Greenberg Traurig

Decreto Por El Que Se Abroga El Reglamento Para Prevenir Y Controlar La Contaminación Del Mar Por Vertimiento De Desechos Y Otras Materias, Y Se Fija Un Régimen Transitorio.

Mediante decreto publicado por la Presidencia de la República en el Diario Oficial de la Federación ("DOF"), el 19 de septiembre de 2024,...

Mexico Environment

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Greenberg Traurig, LLP

Modificaciones A La Vigencia De La NOM-044-SEMARNAT-2017

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Santamarina y Steta S.C.

Brazil's National Policy On Air Quality Passes Houses, With Certain Vetoes

Brazil Environment

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Mayer Brown

New Lawsuit Filed By Brazil's Federal Government Further Strengthens Climate Litigation Trends Against Private Entities In Brazil

Brazil Environment

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Mayer Brown

Mexico's Mining Reforms: Another Test For The Industry

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Steptoe LLP

Brazil Launches Federal Strategy To Incentivize The Sustainable Use Of Biogas And Biomethane And Methane Zero Program

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Mayer Brown

Ambiental News #3

Brazil Environment

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Koury Lopes Advogados

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Climate Change

Actualizaciones en materia Ambiental en Latinoamérica: marzo y abril 2025

La presente alerta tiene por objeto destacar las noticias más relevantes en materia ambiental en Latinoamérica durante marzo y abril de 2025.

Worldwide Environment

GT

Greenberg Traurig, LLP

MMA Opens Public Consultation On Regulation Of The National Policy On Payment For Environmental Services

Brazil's Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change (MMA) has launched a public consultation on the draft decree intended to regulate Law No. 14,119/2021...

Brazil Environment

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Mayer Brown

Brazil Introduces Regulations On The Importation Of Solid Waste And Tailings

The Brazilian government published Decree No. 12,451/2025 (the "New Decree"), which regulates Article 49, §1 of the National Solid Waste Policy (Law No. 12,305/2010), establishing exceptions to the ban on importing solid waste and tailings.

Brazil Environment

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Mayer Brown

ICMBio Updates Rules On Intervention In Environmental Licensing

Brazil Environment

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Mayer Brown

Environmental Law 2024

Dominican Republic Environment

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Guzman Ariza Attorneys At Law

5 Trends To Watch: 2025 Environmental — Mexico

Mexico Environment

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Greenberg Traurig

Clima 2024-2025: retrospectiva e os próximos desafios no Direito Ambiental

Brazil Environment

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Koury Lopes Advogados

Panama Drought: An Ebbing Tide Lifts All Boats' Transit Fees

Panama Environment

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WTW

Reformas al Sector Energético - Parte III: Ley de Planeación y Transición Energética

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Greenberg Traurig

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Waste Management

Artigo no JOTA propõe novo olhar sobre economia circular e cadeia da reciclagem

Advogado do KLA propõe soluções para ampliar o acesso de cooperativas de catadores ao financiamento no setor de reciclagem, traçando analogia com o orixá Exu...

Brazil Strategy

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Koury Lopes Advogados

Normas de Información de Sostenibilidad

El 13 de mayo de 2024, el Consejo Mexicano de Normas de Información Financiera y Sostenibilidad (CINIF) publicó las Normas de Información de Sostenibilidad (NIS), mismas que entraron en vigor el 1 de enero de 2025.

Mexico Environment

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Greenberg Traurig, LLP

Dia do Meio Ambiente: o Direito como ferramenta do desenvolvimento sustentável

Em meio a pressões internas e compromissos globais, marcos legais ganham protagonismo na agenda ambiental e econômica do país; confira novo post no blog Ambiente Sustentável...

Brazil Environment

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Koury Lopes Advogados

Resumen De Impuestos Ecológicos En México

Mexico Environment

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Greenberg Traurig, LLP

Brazil Introduces Regulations On The Importation Of Solid Waste And Tailings

Brazil Environment

MB

Mayer Brown

Decreto regulamenta importação de resíduos sólidos e reforça proteção ambiental

Brazil Environment

KL

Koury Lopes Advogados

Decree Regulates Solid Waste Imports And Strengthens Environmental Protection

Brazil Environment

KL

Koury Lopes Advogados

Environmental Law 2024

Dominican Republic Environment

GA

Guzman Ariza Attorneys At Law

5 Trends To Watch: 2025 Environmental — Mexico

Mexico Environment

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Greenberg Traurig

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STF confirma que dano ambiental é imprescritível; confira newsletter (Video)

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Koury Lopes Advogados

Alterações no processo administrativo federal ambiental (Video)

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Koury Lopes Advogados

Ambiental News #6

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Koury Lopes Advogados

Ambiental News #6 (Video)

KL

Koury Lopes Advogados

Adequação Ambiental De Propriedades Rurais (Video)

KL

Koury Lopes Advogados

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