UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF RIGHTS OF MOTHER EARTH
World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth,
Cochabamba, Bolivia, April 22, 2010
A RIGHTS REVOLUTION FOR NATURE
Introduction of legal rights for nature could protect natural systems from destruction
Guillaume Chapron1, Yaffa Epstein2, José Vicente López-Bao3
Science 29 Mar 2019: Vol. 363, Issue 6434, pp. 1392-1393
EARTH LAW ALLIANCE:
“Last month, I attended the first ever Ethics Tribunal for the Rights of Nature…“
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Polly Higgins:
“We are legally advising on ecocide crime to become an international crime at the International Criminal Court“…
Ecocide is the extensive damage, destruction to or loss of ecosystems. Existing law does not go far enough in terms of stopping serious harm, ecological harm and climactic harm. We’re talking about criminal law here, so you’re looking at CEOs, directors, ministers, heads of state, who can be held to account within an International Criminal Court.”