Press Release from the Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature: June 3-5 On the week of World Environment Day, the global environmental community is coming together in Stockholm, Sweden for a major international environmental meeting: “Stockholm+50: a healthy planet for the prosperity of all – our responsibility, our opportunity”, which will take place five [...]
A new Rights of Nature Bill was proposed in Canada on May 5, 2022.
The “rights of nature” movement, gaining adherents across the country and globally, asserts that rivers, trees, mountains and ecosystems have legal rights, just like people and corporations. Katie Surma in Inside Climate News on April 27 2022. In the first U.S. enforcement action related to a burgeoning “rights of nature” movement, which holds that rivers, [...]
—and That Humans Are Required to Protect It. The judge invoked the power of the government to act as a guardian for those who cannot care for themselves. By Katie Surma in Inside Climate News on May 4, 2022. The highest court in one of India’s 28 states ruled last month that “Mother Nature” has [...]
Press Release: New York recognizes the Great Lakes Bill of Rights, with the goal of securing legal rights for the ecosystem It was originally introduced as Lake Erie Bill of Rights - now amended to encompass Lake Erie and Lake Ontario. The bill paves the way for litigation against polluters on behalf of the [...]
The nation joins a host of other countries in embracing a legal movement that gives land, trees, rivers, coral reefs and mountains unique legal rights, similar to humans, corporations and governments. Published by Inside Climate News by Katie Surma on Febrary 25, 2022. Panama is the latest country to recognize the legal rights of nature, [...]
White Earth Nation’s fight to protect “wild rice” from the Line 3 pipeline reflects a larger question about the legal rights of nature. Published by PrismReports, by Ray Levy Uyeda February 22nd, 2022. U.S. federal judges will soon decide whether a lawsuit can proceed in the tribal court of White Earth Nation to decide if [...]
Damages "Law & Order meets the climate crisis as we dig into the stories behind more than 200 climate cases around the globe."-Producers of the new podcast "Damages" In the first episode of Damages Journalist Amy Westervelt and team look at a fascinating case in Minnesota, where the White Earth band of Ojibwe have filed [...]
The court’s ruling cheered environmentalists and sent shock waves through the mining industry, which now must prove that projects don’t harm ecosystems or endanger species. By Katie Surma, published by Iniside Climate News on February 21, 2022. Until recently, so-called “rights of nature” provisions that confer legal rights to rivers, forests and other ecosystems have [...]
Published by CELDF, by Tish O'Dell on December 17, 2021. Drawing on a provision in Ecuador’s popularly-adopted constitution of 2008, the nation’s Constitutional Court (Ecuador’s highest court) halted mining concessions and permits issued in the Los Cedros Protected Forest ecosystem. The mining would violate the Rights of Nature, the court ruled in the landmark decision. [...]
