Final session: A New Pledge For Mother Nature
Location
Rua Augusto Corrêa, 1 Guamá, CEP: 66075-110 Belém-PA – Universitário, Belém – PA.
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The concluding session in Belém will consolidate the analyses, findings, and judgments of this 6th international hearing. The program will be structured around five key pillars:
- Amplifying the voices of Mother Earth’s defenders.
Keynote speeches from frontline communities resisting the extraction frontiers in the Amazon and the world.
- Presentations and reflections from international efforts for Nature
such as the “Pacto Ecosocial e Intercultural del Sur” and the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty and the Global Tapestry of Alternatives.
- Protect Mother Earth’s defenders.
Reflections on the situation of environmental defenders and presentation of the International Rights of Nature Tribunal policy on the Rights of the defenders of Mother Earth.
- Just transition out of fossil fuels and a critical approach to mining, while holding corporations and governments accountable.
A presentation of the judgments of New York and Toronto The End of the Fossil Fuel Industry – Holding corporations and governments accountable.
- Rights of Nature as a legal and ethical solution.
A celebration of Rights of Nature victories and how RoN serves as a systemic solution to the environmental and climate crisis.
- Presentation of the policy document “A New Pledge For Mother Nature ”
This final session in Belém is organized in the Framework of the activities of the People’s Summit and will be a landmark moment a comprehensive proposal urging decisive action from the international community and the United Nations to ensure a livable future for all.
This final session in Belém will be a landmark moment for global environmental governance, reinforcing the Tribunal’s commitment to ecological justice and the Rights of Nature as a foundational legal framework for our shared future.
A Path to COP30: From New York and Toronto to Belém
This final session builds on the analysis from the two previous sessions of the 6th International Rights of Nature Tribunal held in New York and Toronto. These sessions focused respectively on two major harmful industries driving the climate and environmental crisis: fossil fuels and mining. Explore here the key moments and final documents from both sessions.
Through powerful testimonies from frontline communities, legal experts, and Earth defenders, the Tribunal will expose systemic harms and call for transformative legal frameworks that recognize the Rights of Nature. Special focus will be given to the protection of Mother Earth’s defenders and the path toward a truly just transition.
Explored during the “The End of the Fossil Fuel Era” hearing, held on 22 September 2024 at Climate Week in New York. This session analyzed the global dependence on fossil fuels and aligned its recommendations with the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty.
Cases heard in New York included:
- False solutions to the climate crisis
- Coastal GasLink Pipeline, Canada
- Gas Pipeline, Mozambique
- East African Crude Oil Pipeline, South Africa
- Hadero Arand, India
- Talara Refinery & New Amazon Oil Expansion (Petroperu 64), Peru
- Mountain Valley Pipeline, USA
- Oil Spill in Verde Passage & Manila Bay, Philippines
- Musina-Makhado Special Economic Zone, South Africa
- Louisiana’s Sacrifice Zone, USA
- Vaca Muerta Sacrifice Zone, Argentina
- Land Defenders & Solutions: Yasuni ITT Case, Keystone XL Pipeline, Just Transition
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Slides and presentations
Investigated in “The Impacts of Mining and the Post-Extractivism Era” hearing in Toronto on 28 February 2025, ahead of the Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) conference. This session exposed environmental destruction and human rights abuses caused by Canadian mining projects under the guise of a “green transition.”
Cases heard in Toronto included:
- Canada’s Entrenchment in Ecuador:
- Palo Quemado / Las Pampas
- Kimsakocha
- Nabón
- Naves
- Warintza
- Fierro Urco
- Espindola
- Amazon Belo Sun Gold Mine, Brazil
- Canada-Ecuador Free Trade Agreement
- Cyanide Spill in San Juan, Argentina
- Lithium Mining in Jujuy, Argentina
- Uranium Mining, Canada
- Dundee Precious Minerals in Homolje, Serbia
- Aclara Resources Heavy Rare Earths, Chile
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Check back soon for detailed description of our Panel of Judges, Speakers, and the Full Agenda of this Tribunal session.
Organized By
The Tribunal is an ethical civil society platform that acts as a subsidiary to States to review cases and judge them through the lens of the Rights of Nature. It is an ideal space for people from all over the world to speak out on behalf of Nature, to demonstrate the processes that are destroying the Earth, a destruction that is often promoted by governments and corporations, and to make recommendations on the protection and restoration of the Earth. The Tribunal has judges selected for their impeccable ethical and moral track record that makes their verdicts heard and respected by civil society. The Tribunal also focuses on enabling indigenous peoples to share their unique land, water and cultural concerns and solutions with the global community.
Tribunal Secretariat
The Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature (GARN) is a global network of organizations and individuals committed to the universal adoption and implementation of legal systems that recognize, respect and enforce the Rights of Nature. Its members are a diverse network of scientists, lawyers, economists, indigenous leaders, authors, spiritual leaders, business leaders, politicians, actors, homemakers, students, activists: people from all walks of life in over 100 countries on 6 continents: North and South America, Africa, Europe, Asia and Australia who seek to transform our human relationship with our planet.