Legal definition of ecocide as a crime against the planet has been determined by international panel
An international panel has decided on a legal definition for ecocide as a crime against humanity as a whole, but above all, against the planet.
Tribunal Considers Rights of Nature in Imperiled San Francisco Bay-Delta
Thank you Dan Bacher and Daily Kos, Monday May 02, 2016, 8:48 AM PDT, for this article. Many people have opined about Governor Jerry Brown’s environmentally devastating Delta Tunnels Plan, but nobody, including the Brown and Obama administrations promoting the project, have asked the...
Tribunal Considers Rights of Nature in Imperiled San Francisco Bay-Delta
Thank you Dan Bacher and Daily Kos, Monday May 02, 2016, 8:48 AM PDT, for this article. Many people have opined about Governor Jerry Brown’s environmentally devastating Delta Tunnels Plan, but nobody, including the Brown and Obama administrations promoting the project, have asked the...
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...
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...
The Paris COP21 failure demonstrates climate justice lies beyond the “Red Line”
Movement Rights Blog, By Shannon Biggs and Pennie Opal Plant, December 21, 2015 If you’ve been confused by the conflicting reports of the success COP 21 negotiations, you’re not alone. On the final day of the UN climate talks, President...
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...
Mind the gap: Climate negotiators and civil society don’t agree
By Elisa Garcia for Global Sisters Report Photo: Indigenous leader from Ecuador speaks to crimes against nature by Chevron to a 13-member international panel of judges headed by South African lawyer Cormac Cullinan, author of Wild Law. Left is co-prosecutor...
“Laudato si” – A 21st Century Manifesto for Earth Democracy
By Vandana Shiva – L’Huffington Post Italia, 19 June 2015 reposted at Seed Freedom in English on June 20, 2015 at Seed Freedom Most reports of Pope Francis’s Encyclical in the press before the formal launch yesterday reduced this path...
