Demanding Climate Rights in Brazil
Provided by: The Climate Reality Project|Published on: October 23, 2025
Grades: 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
Type: Articles/Websites
Subjects: Civics
Authors: The Climate Reality Project
Region: South and Central America
Languages: English
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Synopsis
- This article from The Climate Reality Project explains how communities and advocates are advancing climate rights in Brazil, linking human rights to environmental protection.
- Students will read about the meeting of over 20 representatives from territories in Brazil who aim to collaborate on a charter of climate rights to be presented at COP 30.
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Positives
- The resource clearly connects climate action with human rights.
- The article highlights that climate change is impacting people right now and is an issue that needs to be addressed.
Prerequisites
- Students should understand the basics of climate impacts and the idea of rights.
- Teachers may want to introduce students to COP and its origins, depending on students' background knowledge.
Differentiation & Implementation
- Students can research how climate change is impacting their communities right now and discuss what they might put in their own charter of climate rights.
- As an extension, teachers can have students break into jigsaw groups and explore the climate rights charters for the territories in Brazil, following the link provided at the bottom of the article.
- Teachers can use this article to make connections to the Sustainable Development Goals, especially if students are looking into the demands written in the charters. These demands can be connected to many of the SDGs, such as SDG 3, Good Health and Well-Being, SDG 4, Quality Education, and SDG 6, Clean Water and Sanitation.
This resource details work in marginalized communities across Brazil to establish climate rights charters that enumerate the rights of people most impacted by climate change. Indigenous rights are linked with climate action, leading up to COP 30. This resource is recommended for teaching.
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The Climate Reality Project
Climate Reality Project seeks to catalyze a global solution to the climate crisis by making urgent action a necessity across every sector of society. They recruit, train, and mobilize people to become powerful activists, providing the skills, campaigns, and resources to push for aggressive climate action and high-level policies that accelerate a just transition to clean energy.
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