Earth law update – March 24, 2016
From Tom Brenan, Gaia Foundation Here are some recent Earth law developments: The Australian Earth Laws Alliance (AELA) has issued a call for papers in preparation for its conference on 20th and 21st October 2016, ‘The future of Australian environmental...
COP out – Earth’s Rights neglected in favour of market driven forces
COP out – Earth’s Rights neglected in favour of market driven forces By Cormac Cullinan, Cullinan & Associates, 29 February 2016 When world leaders celebrated a ‘decisive’ outcome at COP21 they were inadvertently demonstrating the utter futility of continuing to...
Recognizing the Rights of Nature and the Living Forest
By Osprey Orielle Lake, Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network International During COP21 U.N. climate negotiations and actions by the climate justice movement in Paris, two truly transformational ideas were presented that challenge dominant destructive paradigms and instead offer deep...
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...
Creating New Norms: The Rights of Nature Tribunal
By Jeremy Lent, Patterns of Meaning, December 9, 2015 Writing from Paris while global leaders converged for the UN FCCC COP 21 and events offering profound alternative solutions, Jeremy Lent shares his perspective on the impact of the The Rights...
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...
