RIO DE JANEIRO (CN) — A Rio de Janeiro court ordered the state government to examine public school infrastructure and create an emergency adaptation plan after dozens of extreme heat episodes in classrooms, in a January ruling that could set a precedent for climate adaptation litigation in Brazil’s education system.
The decision comes just weeks before the school year is scheduled to start at the beginning of February. Increasingly frequent and intense heat waves have exposed inadequate conditions in a large share of the nation’s public schools.
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