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SUMMARY:Dissecting the Human Right to a Healthy Environment (Recorded Webinar)
DESCRIPTION:Earth Law Alliance\, in collaboration with Earth Thrive and Consensus Law Magazine\, is delighted to present the recording of our third and last webinar on the subject of “Eco-Law”. This webinar took place on Tuesday 6th December 2022 and focused on the emergence of the many laws around the world that aim to ensure the human right to a safe\, clean\, healthy and sustainable environment. We also considered the interface and obvious intertwining of human rights with the inherent right of nature and ecosystems to exist and thrive\, which is not yet reflected in the majority of legal systems around the world. \n\nOn 26th July 2022\, in the face of the continuing rapid and alarming decline of ecosystems and biodiversity globally\, the United Nations General Assembly declared that everyone on the planet has a right to a healthy environment. The resolution states that climate change and environmental degradation are some of the most pressing threats to humanity’s future and calls on states to increase their efforts to ensure that their citizens have access to a “clean\, healthy and sustainable environment.” \nThe triple planetary crisis of (1) climate change\, (2) biodiversity loss and (3) increasing waste and pollution are challenges that will profoundly affect us all in various ways in the coming years and decades. Recognising the human right to a healthy environment is a big step forwards\, and over 100 countries now include the human right to a healthy environment in their national constitutions\, but does this go far enough\, given what we now know from the science of ecology about the interconnectedness of all life? \nIn looking at the “environment” part of the equation\, we considered how things would be different if we reframe our relationship to the living world from a more ecocentric perspective. Human rights can only exist in the first place because we have a habitable planet to live on. Arguably\, one of the biggest ‘missing pieces’ from our legal systems is the recognition of the rights of nature. We cannot exist or thrive without healthy ecosystems\, and yet nature\, ecosystems and other species have no recognised right even to exist in the majority of legal systems\, let alone to be clean and healthy. However this too is slowly changing via the Rights of Nature movement globally. \nTo inform us further on these topics\, we were delighted to welcome the following speakers: \nDr. David R. Boyd is the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights and the environment (2018-2024) and a professor of law\, policy\, and sustainability at the University of British Columbia\, jointly appointed at the Institute for Resources\, Environment and Sustainability and the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs. \nDr. Boyd is also the author of ten books and over 100 reports and articles on environmental law and policy\, human rights\, and constitutional law. His books include The Environmental Rights Revolution: A Global Study of Constitutions\, Human Rights and the Environment (UBC Press\, 2011)\, The Right to a Healthy Environment (UBC Press\, 2012)\, The Optimistic Environmentalist: Progressing Toward a Greener Future (ECW Press\, 2015)\, The Rights of Nature: A legal Revolution that could Save the World (ECW Press\, 2017)\,   and his first novel\, Thirst for Justice (2020). \nSue Willman is an Assistant Director and Lecturer at King’s College\, London where she launched the UK’s first human rights and environment legal clinic. She is a member of the King’s Centre for Climate Law and Governance. Sue has jointly established the ERRP project to promote the Right to a Healthy Environment (see briefing paper The Right to a Healthy Environment in the United Kingdom: Supporting the Proposal for a New Protocol to the European Convention on Human Rights by Harry Balfour-Lynn and Sue Willman). She is currently working with NGOs in Ireland and Iceland to advocate for the human right to a healthy environment. Sue aims to approach environmental justice from a Rights of Nature perspective and recently worked with Earth Thrive and students from King’s Legal Clinic on a Bern Convention complaint on behalf of EkoKrajiste in Serbia\, making a landmark legal complaint aimed at protecting endangered species in Serbia from mining operations\, using Rights of Nature arguments. \nCormac Cullinan is a practising environmental attorney and author based in Cape Town\, South Africa. He is a director of the leading South African environmental law firm\, Cullinan & Associates Inc\, and director of the Wild Law Institute\, a non-profit organisation that advocates for Rights of Nature. In the academic field he has lectured and written widely on governance issues related to human interactions with the environment and is notable for authoring a book\, Wild Law – A Manifesto for Earth Justice\, as well as several works commissioned and published by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. He is a graduate of the University of Natal and King’s College London. \nin 2010\, Cullinan led the drafting of the Universal Declaration of the Rights of Mother Earth and is a founder and Executive Committee member of the Global Alliance for Rights of Nature. He drafted the Peoples’ Convention that established the International Tribunal on the Rights of Nature\, and was the president of the Tribunal hearings in December 2015 in Paris. Between 2019 and 2021\, Cullinan served as the president of the European Tribunal on the Rights of Nature. He has addressed conferences throughout the world on Earth Jurisprudence and the rights of Nature\, including the UN General Assembly in 2011. \nAna Beridze is an environmental lawyer from Georgia. She holds a Master’s degree in Environmental Law from the University of Dundee\, where she studied as a Chevening Scholar. Her areas of expertise include environmental regulation and international climate change law. Currently\, Ana works as an environmental human rights’ analyst at the Georgian Young Lawyers’ Association. She is responsible for researching and analyzing Georgian environmental and climate change legislation and developing recommendations on how to advance them. \n\n\nWebinar Moderator:\n\nLisa Mead is a lawyer\, educator and advocate for Rights of Nature and for the development of ecological law and governance. She runs the Earth Law Alliance (earthlawyers.org) and is a founding Steering Committee member of the Ecological Law & Governance Association. In 2018 she acted as Lead Counsel for Nature’s Rights at the Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal on Human Rights\, Fracking and Climate Change. She was an expert contributor to the UN’s 2016 Harmony with Nature Dialogue on Earth Jurisprudence and has advocated for ocean rights at the International Rights of Nature Tribunal in Paris in December 2015. Lisa has taught Applied Sustainability on Findhorn College’s former Human Challenge of Sustainability undergraduate semester program and for 3 years facilitated the Economic Design module of Findhorn College’s Ecovillage Design Education program.
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SUMMARY:Ecocide: Criminalising the Destruction of Earth (Recorded Webinar)
DESCRIPTION:When will we have an International Law of Ecocide?\nEarth Law Alliance\, in collaboration with Earth Thrive and Consensus Law Magazine\, presented our second webinar on 22 November 2022\, in which we explored the proposal for an international crime of Ecocide\, considered by many to be the ‘missing crime against peace’ at the International Criminal Court. Ecocide in wartime is rightly already recognised as a heinous crime\, but what about destruction of nature in other circumstances? What will it take for the mass destruction of nature and ecosystems to be officially recognised as a crime at the international level\, and for action to be taken against the perpetrators of such destruction? \n\n\n\n\n \nThis webinar also considered the strong connection between Ecocide and climate change\, and how adopting an international law of Ecocide would help to limit and contain rising global temperatures. \n00:00 – Introduction  \n03:00 – Rachelle Adam  \n26:30 – Jonas Roupé  \n38:30 – Jojo Mehta  \n55:50 – Questions and Answers \n\n\nOverview of the webinar:\n\nRachelle Adam talks about the law of ecocide from an academic viewpoint – outlining the perceived need for a law of Ecocide at the international level; history of the concept of ecocide; attempts to define it and the need for national laws of Ecocide. \nJonas Roupe introduces the findings set out in his recently published report on Ecocide Law for the Paris Agreement. \nJojo Mehta gives the perspective of those advocating for legal change\, pressing governments to make Ecocide a crime at the international level. \n\nQ&A led by Lisa Mead – after the speakers have presented\, there are questions to the speakers from the webinar participants. \n\nWebinar length: [70] mins\n\n\n\nPresenters:\n\n\nRachelle Adam has twenty five years of experience in “rights for nature” legal issues. As an attorney for Israel’s Environment Ministry\, she drafted the amendment to Israel’s Water Law’s that granted legal status to streams\, springs and wetlands. From a government lawyer Rachelle became an advocacy lawyer\, and co-founded a leading community-based and award-winning environmental organization (“Ramot for the Environment”). She spearheaded the “Gazelle Petition” in which Israel’s endangered gazelle appeared as a petitioner together with five of its human neighbours\, winning the 2008 court decision that threw out government development plans for its habitat. Rachelle received her doctorate in international biodiversity law and her thesis was published under the title\, Elephant Treaties\, the Colonial Legacy of the Biodiversity Crisis. She teaches environmental law at Hebrew University’s law faculty\, which has evolved into an ecological law\, or Earth law course\, including the Law of Ecocide. In addition to her involvement in environmental and animal rights campaigns and organisations\, Rachelle also sits on the board of Earth Law Center. \nJonas Roupé has worked with business renewal and sustainability issues since 1995\, and with recycling and the circular economy since 2013. He is co-founder of End Ecocide Sweden and author of the new report Ecocide law for the Paris Agreement. \nAs the founder of the Swedish advisory firm Insiktsbolaget\, Jonas works nationally and internationally as an advisor and consultant. He is recognised for his work with the network End Ecocide Sweden and Ecocide Law Alliance\, which campaigns for international law to protect ecosystems. This law will lay the foundation for a world circular economy. \nJonas holds an MSc in business administration\, a BSc in political science and degrees in engineering and psychology. He has held positions as head of Strategy\, Business Intelligence\, Head of Business Development\, Chief Strategy Officer and Chief Marketing Officer with companies like Ericsson\, TeliaSonera and Skanova and is an experienced board member. He is and has been advising Privately owned companies\, Stock traded companies\, Government owned companies\, Trade organisations and NGOs. \nJojo Mehta co-founded Stop Ecocide International in 2017\, alongside barrister and legal pioneer\, the late Polly Higgins\, to support the establishment of ecocide as a crime at the International Criminal Court. As Co-Founder\, Executive Director and key spokesperson of Stop Ecocide International\, Jojo has overseen the remarkable growth of the movement\, while coordinating between legal developments\, diplomatic traction and public narrative. The core work of the NGO is in activating and developing global cross-sector support for an international crime of ecocide. It is supported and progressed by a large network of over 45 teams and associate groups globally. \nJojo is Chair of the charitable Stop Ecocide Foundation and convenor of the Independent Expert Panel for the Legal Definition of Ecocide chaired by Philippe Sands QC and Dior Fall Sow. \nKnown for her clear and engaging communication\, Jojo has contributed to law conferences\, diplomatic events\, environmental summits and climate rallies as well as podcasts\, interviews and articles for publications and broadcasters ranging from TIME Magazine to the New York Times and from The Guardian to the BBC. \nJojo is a graduate of Oxford and London universities and has a background in communications\, entrepreneurship and on-the-ground environmental campaigning. \nWebinar Moderator:\nLisa Mead is a lawyer\, educator and advocate for Rights of Nature and for the development of ecological law and governance. She runs the Earth Law Alliance (earthlawyers.org) and is a founding Steering Committee member of the Ecological Law & Governance Association. In 2018 she acted as Lead Counsel for Nature’s Rights at the Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal on Human Rights\, Fracking and Climate Change. She was an expert contributor to the UN’s 2016 Harmony with Nature Dialogue on Earth Jurisprudence and has advocated for ocean rights at the International Rights of Nature Tribunal in Paris in December 2015. Lisa has taught Applied Sustainability on Findhorn College’s former Human Challenge of Sustainability undergraduate semester program and for 3 years facilitated the Economic Design module of Findhorn College’s Ecovillage Design Education program.
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SUMMARY:Rights of Nature - Introduction to key principles and analysis of recent cases (Recorded Webinar)
DESCRIPTION:On 8th November 2022\, Earth Law Alliance\, in collaboration with Earth Thrive and Consensus Law Magazine\, hosted a webinar focusing on Rights of Nature\, in which we explored the growing number of court cases and legislation around the world\, in which rivers\, mountains and forests are acknowledged as having inherent rights. The right to exist\, to thrive\, to regenerate\, to be restored – among others. What are the implications of this development for legal systems? \n \nContents of this video\n00:00 – Introduction  \n03:21 – Natalia Greene\, Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature – overview of Rights of Nature and recent case law developments \n18:28 – Eduardo Salazar Ortuño\, Eco Justicia – Mar Menor legal personhood / rights case \n33:42 – Grant Wilson\, Earth Law Center – hurdles and nuances in the Rights of Nature movement \n49:56 – Zoe Lujic\, Earth Thrive – current Rights of Nature initiatives in Europe and the Mediterranean Basin \n01:09:00 – Questions and Answers \nSpeaker Information:\nNatalia Greene\, Ecuadorian\, studied her Bachelor of Arts at Hampshire College\, Massachusetts. She holds a Master’s degree in Social Sciences from FLACSO-Ecuador and a Master’s degree in Climate Change from UASB-EC. \nShe was President and is now Vice President of the Ecuadorian Coordinator of Organizations for the Defense of Nature and the Environment (CEDENMA)\, member of the Executive Committee of the Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature\, coordinator of the Alliance’s global team and Secretary of the International Tribunals for the Rights of Nature. Consultant of the Sacred Headwaters Initiative and promoter of the collective\, Frente al Ambiente. \n  \nEduardo Salazar Ortuño is an environmental lawyer and consultant with over 20 years experience. As founder of Eco Justicia law firm in Spain\, he has collaborated with various global environmental entities including ELaw\, IUCN and Greenpeace and is a faculty member of the Chair of Human Rights and Rights of Nature of the University of Murcia (Cátedra de Derechos Humanos y Derechos de la Naturaleza de la Universidad de Murcia). \nHe is also a key member of the Promoting Commission of the People’s Legislative Initiative\, which campaigned successfully for the recognition of the fundamental rights and legal personhood of the highly polluted Mar Menor lagoon\, near Murcia in Spain. \nGrant Wilson is Executive Director of Earth Law Center in the USA and a leading expert on the Rights of Nature\, ecocentric law\, water law\, international environmental law\, and human environmental rights. For the last decade\, he has defended the rights and interests of Nature all over the world\, including by writing new Rights of Nature laws and winning decisive courtroom victories for rivers and other ecosystems. \nGrant earned a degree in Environmental Policy from Huxley College of the Environment at Western Washington University\, and a J.D. with a Certificate in Environmental and Natural Resources Law from Lewis & Clark Law School. \nZoe Lujic is a deep environmentalist and rights of Nature advocate. She holds an MSc in Environmental Studies and is the founder and organising director of the Earth Thrive organisation. \nEarth Thrive works on establishing rights of Nature in Europe\, on the prevention of ecocides in Zoe’s native Balkans and on the introduction and establishment of an international Law of Ecocide. \n  \n  \n  \nWebinar Moderator:\nLisa Mead is a lawyer\, educator and advocate for Rights of Nature and for the development of ecological law and governance. She runs the Earth Law Alliance (earthlawyers.org) and is a founding Steering Committee member of the Ecological Law & Governance Association. In 2018 she acted as Lead Counsel for Nature’s Rights at the Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal on Human Rights\, Fracking and Climate Change. She was an expert contributor to the UN’s 2016 Harmony with Nature Dialogue on Earth Jurisprudence and has advocated for ocean rights at the International Rights of Nature Tribunal in Paris in December 2015. Lisa has taught Applied Sustainability on Findhorn College’s former Human Challenge of Sustainability undergraduate semester program and for 3 years facilitated the Economic Design module of Findhorn College’s Ecovillage Design Education program.
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