Read her complete blog at Global Exchange Brings Rights of Nature to the 2012 Earth Summit (Rio+20)
So why should we care about the Rio+20 (years) Earth Summit this June?
Rights of Nature Panel and Formal Signing Ceremony: Sunday June 17, 9:30am RioCentro T3
Rights of Nature Speakers: ·Nnimmo Bassey – Environmental Rights Action / Friends of the Earth, Nigeria · Shannon Biggs – Global Exchange, USA · Cormac Cullinan – EnAct International, South Africa · Tom Goldtooth – Indigenous Environmental Network, USA · Natalia Greene – Fundación Pachamama, Ecuador · Osprey Orielle Lake – Women’s Earth and Climate Caucus, USA · Linda Sheehan – Earth Law Center, USA · Dr. Vandana Shiva – Navdanya, India · Pablo Solon – Focus on the Global South, Former Ambassador to the UN, Bolivia The report directly confronts the notion of the Gree(d)n Economy of course, and is full of examples from around the world. But it is also a call out about what a true rights of nature framework would offer the world—and includes examples and updates of the growth of this movement, and new laws taking hold. And lastly, the report asks: if nature had rights, how different would our organizing look around water, Tar Sands extraction and Indigenous rights? And what would the economy look like? Contributors to the report include Dr. Vandana Shiva, Pablo Solon, Tom B.K. Goldtooth, Mari Margil and many others. The report, Rights of Nature: Planting Seeds of Real Change will be available for free download from our website on June 15. Until then, we’ve selected two chapters for free preview and download now:- Pablo Solon: At the crossroads between green economy and rights of nature
- Tom B.K. Goldtooth: Indigenous Sovereignty, “Green” Economy and the Rights of Mother Earth
Read Shannon’s complete blog at Global Exchange Brings Rights of Nature to the 2012 Earth Summit (Rio+20)