At COP30 in Belém, Brazil, the Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature (GARN) stood at the heart of the Amazon with a powerful and united call: recognizing the Rights of Nature is a systemic solution to climate collapse. From the streets to the rivers and to the negotiation halls, GARN bridged grassroots wisdom and global policy, demonstrating that ecological governance grounded in Indigenous leadership is not only possible—it is urgently necessary.
Through on-the-ground movement building, public mobilization, and strategic interventions inside the Blue, Green, and Yellow Zones, GARN ensured that the voice of Nature—long marginalized in climate negotiations—was visible, audible, and impossible to ignore.
Our delegation – including over 80 Rights of Nature allies, leaders, and activists – called for the Rights of Nature in the halls of COP30 and at the Climate Action march, affirming GARN’s commitment to transformative, rights-based ecological governance grounded in Indigenous leadership and Earth Jurisprudence.
GARN's COP30
Position Paper
“Humanity must choose: continue with incremental, market-driven fixes or embrace a systemic transformation that restores balance between people and planet.”
Presented at COP30 in the heart of the Amazon, a bioregion on the edge of collapse, GARN’s position paper calls for deep structural transformation of global governance systems.
The paper outlines:
GARN Inside COP30:
Bringing Rights of Nature to the Blue Zone
At COP30’s Blue Zone, GARN urged global leaders, governments, and civil society to move beyond market mechanisms and adopt the Rights of Nature as an essential framework to address the climate crisis.
Press Conference: Rights of the Amazon, Antarctica & Indigenous Leadership
Watch the press conference:
Featuring Casey Camp-Horinek, Francesco Martone, Pablo Solón, and Roberta Bosu. Moderated by Natalia Greene.
Watch our event with Global Ecovillage Network
Highlighting community-led and youth-led ecological transformation grounded in Rights of Nature.
Held across four strategic days in Belém, our Pre-COP30 Summit strengthened the movement on the ground.
GARN’s 15-Year Anniversary celebration at Combu Island
Honoring fifteen years of global movement
Building for the Rights of Nature
Indigenous Council Gathering at Embaixada dos Povos
Bringing together Indigenous leaders
From Aotearoa to Africa and the Amazon
Strategic meetings
Movement building
Shape our roadmap for the next years
6th International Rights of Nature Tribunal – Final Session
A New Pledge for Mother Nature
Climate Action March
Demanding system change and justice for the Amazon
Thousands people filled the streets of Belém
At COP30, GARN reaffirmed three core priorities for systemic transformation:
Rights of the Amazon
In partnership with Indigenous nations and civil society, GARN is calling for the formal recognition of the Amazon as a rights-bearing entity. Access the Amazon Rights Declaration, put forward in June 2024 at the XI Pan-Amazon Social Forum in Bolivia, endorsed by all national and international FOSPA committees and submitted to the authorities of Brazil and Colombia.
Rights of Antarctica
Through the Antarctica Rights Working Group, GARN is advocating for global acknowledgment of Antarctica and the Southern Ocean as one of the planet’s last wild places deserving of legal rights and a voice in international decision-making processes.
NO Financialization of Nature
As governments and corporations promote carbon markets and other mechanisms that commodify ecosystems, GARN is challenging these false solutions. We will present our White Paper on the Financialization of Nature, urging countries to reject market-based mechanisms and instead pursue real, systemic, rights-based responses to the climate crisis.
From the Amazon to Antarctica, GARN unites voices across continents to restore balance between humanity and the Earth. The Rights of Nature are not an option: they are an imperative for life.
WECAN’s Rights of Nature as a Central Pillar of a Just Transition Policy Brief
Becoming a GARN member is an opportunity to be an active part of the growing Rights of Nature movement in the world. Being a member is completely free and it unlocks a wide range of exclusive benefits that foster collaboration, connection, and amplification of your impact.
Be the voice for Mother Earth, Say yes to Rights of Nature
In addition to the Human Rights Declaration, we are asking the UN to adopt a Declaration of Rights of Mother Earth. An essential step to achieve Rights of Nature is to apply Earth Jurisprudence or Earth Law, which gives natural communities standing in the court of law and sees and treats Nature as fundamental, rights bearing entity, with intrinsic rights to exist and flourish, irrespective of its use and value to humans.
