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While Europe\u2019s \u2018Green Deal,\u2019 China\u2019s \u2018Ecological Civilisation,\u2019 and Latin America\u2019s \u2018Buen Vivir\u2019 offer competing\/complementary sustainability visions, their implementation stumbles against systemic obstacles &#8211; from bureaucratic inertia to the collapse of global agreements like Kyoto\u2019s Protocol and the shortcomings of the Paris Agreement. The Inter-American Court of Human Rights has broken new ground by recognising Indigenous territorial rights based on ancestral ties. Yet, these legal victories face their ultimate test in the Amazon frontier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This seminar will explore these issues from two perspectives: it will, in general, analyse why contemporary climate governance consistently underdelivers and, more specifically, explore how organised crime exploits the institutional weaknesses in the Amazon region. 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