HR!Day537 - Pachamama Alliance - Giving legal rights to Nature: a groundbreaking legal and ecological Paradigm

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This session convened by the Pachamama Alliance explores the growing trend to extend legal “human” rights to Nature.

In 2008, Ecuador was the first country in the world to grant legal rights to Nature in its national constitution. This accomplishment has spawned a global movement to legally recognize the rights of ecosystems and natural communities to exist, maintain and regenerate their vital cycles.

Learn the background of how this new conception of Nature as a rights bearing entity came about, how and where it is spreading around the world, and the critical impact it can have for restoring a human/Earth balance and regenerating all forms of life on our planet.

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  • Natalia Greene: Member of the executive committee and director of the international team of the Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature (“GARN”), a network of organizations and individuals committed to the legal recognition of the Rights of Nature. In 2008 she played a lead role in getting Rights for Nature incorporated into Ecuador’s Constitution and is a Founding Member of GARN. Previously was President, and currently is Vice President of CEDENMA, a coalition of over 60 Ecuadorian NGOs working for defense of Nature and the Environment. She is a consultant to the Amazon Sacred Headwaters Initiative. Natalia lives in Quito, Ecuador.
  • Cormac Cullinan: Author, practicing environmental attorney, and governance expert has worked on environmental governance issues in more than 20 countries. His groundbreaking book “Wild Law A Manifesto for Earth Justice” has played a significant role in informing and inspiring the international movement to recognize rights for Nature. He is director of Cullinans, a specialist environmental and green business law firm, EnAct International, an environmental law and policy consultancy that promotes ecologically sustainable societies, and the Wild Law Institute. In September 2010 he played a leading role in establishing GARN and currently sits on its Executive Committee. He lives in Cape Town, South Africa
  • Bill Twist: Co-founder of Pachamama Alliance in 1996, serves as its chief executive officer and president, striving to bring forth an environmentally sustainable, spiritually fulfilling, socially just human presence on this planet. Bill was one of the Founding Members of GARN in 2010 and serves on its Advisory Board.

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Co-convener:

  • Jim Garrison, President, Ubiquity University

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