5th International Rights of Nature Tribunal: False solutions to the climate change crisis / Amazon, a threatened living entity
The 5th International Rights of Nature Tribunal took place on Wednesday, November 3rd, and Thursday, November 4th at 4 pm (GMT) in Glasgow, alongside the United Nations Conference on Climate Change (COP26). Due to COVID and traveling restrictions, this Tribunal...
Eco-Instigator On International Rights of Nature Tribunal
Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF) released the December 2015 edition of eco-Instigator with a detailed article on the International Rights of Nature Tribunal held in Paris during COP21. Nnimmo Bassey served on the panel of distinguished judges at the...
Two Good Days When Crimes Against Nature Were Exposed
By Nnimmo Bassey For two days in the Maison des Metallos, Paris, experts, victims, prosecutors and judges presented or listened to cases of crimes against Mother Earth and at the end judgements were passed. There were solemn spiritual moments, moments...
Economics for Earth’s Rights
Linda Sheehan, Executive Director ~ Earth Law Center, writing for New Economy Law Center, Vermont Law School “In parallel with the recently concluded climate talks in Paris, I was fortunate to take part in several initiatives to raise awareness of...
A blue and just future is possible
Maude Barlow’s keynote speech from the International Conference on Water, Megacities and Global Change, UNESCO Headquarters, Paris, December 1, 2015 In early December, the world turned its attention to climate talks in Paris. At their international headquarters in Paris, UNESCO...
COP Out: The hollow promise of the Paris climate deal
Hal Rhoades, Gaia Foundation, December 16, 2015 COP21 has had a mixed reception and the agreement reached has been criticised more for what it doesn’t say as much as for what it does. The Gaia Foundation’s latest blog COP out:...
From Paris with love for lake Poopó
By Pablo Solón, El Observatorio Boliviano de Cambio Climático y “Desarrollo”, 21 December 2015 Lake Poopó becomes a desert while in Paris, governments conclude an agreement they call “historic” to address climate change. Will the Paris Agreement save over 125,000...
Grand promises of Paris climate deal undermined by squalid retrenchments
By comparison to what it could have been, it’s a miracle. By comparison to what it should have been, it’s a disaster. George Monbiot, The Guardian Monbiot goes on to note: Inside the narrow frame within which the talks have...
Nature’s rights and human rights : building legal, economic and social solutions to planetary crisis
Hosted by The Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature, NatureRights, EndEcocide on Earth, and Attac France, December 3, 2015, at A Place to B, Paris, France Video of Nature’s rights and human rights : building legal, economic and social...
