Antes que seja tarde demais: clima estável como um novo gênero de patrimônio comum da humanidade?

Kyvia Celine Chevalley; Patrícia Borba Vilar Guimarães

doi:10.22478/ufpb.1678-2593.2025v24n57.77294

Before it is too late:

stable climate as a new kind of common heritage of humanity?

Authors

Kyvia Celine Chevalley Universidade Federal da Paraíba (UFPB) https://orcid.org/0009-0008-9130-948X
Patrícia Borba Vilar Guimarães Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22478/ufpb.1678-2593.2025v24n57.77294

Keywords:

Climate change, Stable climate, Climate as a common heritage of humanity, Common Heritage of Humanity

Abstract

Given the context of the climate crisis and the conceptualization of climate stability as a common concern of humanity, this study examines the possibility of climate stability being recognized as a new type of common heritage of humanity (CHH) in the international legal system. Its objective is to analyze to what extent climate stability can be recognized as a new type of common heritage of humanity in three sections: (a) understanding the global climate system, (b) investigating the legal regime of existing common heritages of humanity, and (c) analyzing a new type of CHH in the international context: climate. It was found that it is possible to separate the static components of the planet, under the sovereign dominion of States, from the dynamic and fluid components that characterize climate, allowing for the recognition of climate stability as a common heritage of humanity in a hybrid system that brings together traditional characteristics of these legal goods and new characteristics inherent to climate. The specific objectives of the study were achieved, and the originality of the research lies in the structuring of the new elements that would integrate the common good "climate" if it is recognized internationally.

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Author Biographies

Kyvia Celine Chevalley, Universidade Federal da Paraíba (UFPB)

Doctoral candidate in Law at the Postgraduate Program in Legal Sciences of the Federal University of Paraíba (PPGCJ/UFPB). Master's degree in Law from the Postgraduate Program in Law of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (PPGD/UFRN). Bachelor's degree in Law from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN). Member of the CNPq Research Group on Law, Sustainable Development and Innovation. Lattes CV: http://lattes.cnpq.br/8629976921767153. Orcid CV: https://orcid.org/0009-0008-9130-948X Email: kyviaceline@hotmail.com

Patrícia Borba Vilar Guimarães, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN)

Bachelor of Laws from the State University of Paraíba (1997). Technologist in Data Processing from the Federal University of Paraíba (1989); Master of Laws from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (2008). Master's degree from the Interdisciplinary Program in Social Sciences, in the area of Social Policies, Conflict and Social Regulation, from the State University of Paraíba (2002). PhD in Natural Resources from the Federal University of Campina Grande (2010). Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/3134219236556237 Orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9130-3901

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Published

2025-12-15

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CHEVALLEY, Kyvia Celine; VILAR GUIMARÃES, Patrícia Borba. Before it is too late:: stable climate as a new kind of common heritage of humanity?. Prim@ Facie - Law, History and Politics, [S. l.], v. 24, n. 57, 2025. DOI: 10.22478/ufpb.1678-2593.2025v24n57.77294. Disponível em: https://periodicos.ufpb.br/index.php/primafacie/article/view/77294. Acesso em: 27 jun. 2026.

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Vol. 24 No. 57 (2025): Energias renováveis, transição energética e mudanças climáticas: impactos, desafios e estratégias

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