AMAZON CASE
“THE AMAZON, A THREATENED LIVING ENTITY”
THURSDAY, NOV4TH, 15H30-19H GMT STRATHCLYDE UNIVERSITY
AUDITORIUM – TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION CENTRE
Hybrid event – online through Zoom and Facebook live
CLIMATE CHANGE CASE
“FALSE SOLUTIONS TO THE CLIMATE CHANGE CRISIS”
WEDNESDAY, NOV 3RD, 15H30-19H GMT STRATHCLYDE UNIVERSITY
AUDITORIUM TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION CENTRE
Hybrid event – online through Zoom and Facebook live
PRESS CONFERENCE
FRIDAY, NOV. 5TH, 17:45 – 18:15 UNFCCC
COP26 OFFICIAL SITE PRESS CONFERENCE ROOM DURDLE DOOR
5th INTERNATIONAL RIGHTS OF NATURE TRIBUNAL
The International Rights of Nature Tribunal is an international institution established by citizens to investigate and publicize Rights of Nature violations. It creates a forum for people from all around the world to speak on behalf of Nature, to protest the destruction of the Earth—destruction that is fostered by corporations with the governments’ compliance—and hence, the Tribunal visibilizes the conflicts and its perpetrators and makes juridical recommendations about Earth’s protection and restoration as modeled jurisprudence for frontline communities. The Tribunal also has a strong focus on enabling Indigenous Peoples to raise their voice and share the impacts that they see in their territories as guardians of the Earth, but is also a space to share solutions about land, water and culture with the global community.
The Tribunal verdicts, if implemented at the very highest levels, could provide a much-needed tool in the struggle for environmental justice. A civil ethical Tribunal inspired by the International War Crimes Tribunal, the Permanent People’s Tribunal and other such grassroots efforts to make up for the failure of the state to provide justice, the International Rights of Nature Tribunal is now calling upon the United Nations —and upon nations in general— to take up the job that it has been fulfilling for years, and defend Nature’s fundamental Rights.
Climate and Environmental Crisis
Under most legal systems operating in the world today —certainly those that are in effect at the national and international levels— Nature and all the beings that conform it do not exist except as so-called “natural resources”; a form of human property to be exploited to a greater or lesser degree at will, thus making it impossible to protect Nature in a court of law from any angle other than its role in human interests.
It is now more clear than ever that these legal systems have not only failed to protect our planet from the advances of an insatiable extractivism; they are, in fact, the tools of that very extractivism, supposedly “regulating” the destruction caused by industries such as mining and fracking, while in practice only sanctioning and perpetuating it.
In the face of the insufficiency of traditional environmental law, the Rights of Nature present a new form of jurisprudence that, by acknowledging Nature as a legal subject of rights just like human beings, pushes courts to look beyond economic incentives and actually make decisions based on the interests of both humanity and the earth community as a whole.
Time is up: the ecological crisis is upon us in such a way that to deny it would be to reject the evidence before our own eyes, and we can no longer afford to abide by laws that are fundamentally unfit to address the current situation; Nature’s fundamental Rights must be acknowledged at every legal level: locally, nationally, and internationally, if we are to avert this crisis.
To that end, the International Rights of Nature Tribunal seeks to demonstrate how the Rights of Nature can be applied, putting a series of urgent, real-world cases before a panel of distinguished judges, who examine and rule on the cases from a Rights of Nature perspective.
The Fifth International Rights of Nature Tribunal will be heard on the 3rd and 4th of November, 2021, in Glasgow, alongside the COP26 organized by the United Nations Conference on Climate Change (UNFCCC), where it will deliver its message in the very arena where the environmental policies of the world are being debated, standing as an alternative to the many false solutions that are being peddled there.
Join us this November in defending the Rights of Nature, and add your voice to the popular demand for governments and courts all around the world to begin playing their part in stopping the ecological crises of our day.
The Fifth International Rights of Nature Tribunal will hear two of the most fundamental ecological cases facing the world today:
Cases from Glasgow Tribunal
Amazon, a threatened living entity
View the Agendas
(Time for Glasgow UK, GMT)
15h30
Opening
Indigenous ceremony
By Tom Goldtooth and Mindahi Bastida
16h00
Introductory Remarks
International Rights of Nature Tribunal’s History
By Secretariat: Natalia Greene
16h05
Introductory Remarks
Introduction to the Rights of Nature Movement
By Judge: Osprey Orielle Lake
16h10
Earth Prosecutor’s introduction
By Earth Prosecutor: Julio Prieto
16h15
Climate Change presentation
By Osver Polo
16h25
Climate Change Case
UNFCCC vs. Climate Change
Dorothy Guerrero
16h35
Climate Change Case
Net Zero Emissions and Nature Based Solutions
By Tom Goldtooth
16h45
Questions from judges
17h00
Climate Change Case
Carbon Offsets
By Chief Ninawa
17h10
Climate Change Case
Fossil Fuels
By Alexandra Almeida
17h20
Climate Change Case
Gas Flaring
By Leonela Moncayo
17h30
Climate Change Case
Coal and Ocean Pollution
By Katta Alonso
17h40
Climate Change Case
Coal and Ocean Pollution
By Hernán Ramírez
17h50
Questions from judges
18h10
Climate Change Case
Geoengineering
By Lili Fuhr
18h20
Climate Change Case
Rights of Future Generations
By Bruno Rodriguez
18h30
Climate Change Case
Asks to the Tribunal – neoliberalization of climate
By Ivonne Yanez
18h35
Questions from judges
18h50
Earth Prosecutor final arguments
By Earth Prosecutor: Julio Prieto
18h55
Judge’s Arguments
By Judges: Enrique Viale, Osprey Orielle Lake, Carolyn Raffensperger, Nnimmo Bassey and Lisa Mead
18h50
Closure words day 1
By Secretariat: Natalia Greene
15h30
Opening
Indigenous ceremony (IEN), Wilma Mendoza Miro (CNAMIB), Juan Carlos Alarcón Reyes (PBFCC)
By Tom Goldtooth
16h00
Introductory Remarks
International Rights of Nature Tribunal’s History
By Secretariat: Natalia Greene
16h05
Introductory Remarks
Rights of Nature RON Assessment and Interconnection
By Esperanza Martínez
16h10
Tribunal Opening
By Leonardo Boff
16h15
Earth Prosecutor’s introduction
By Earth Prosecutor: Pablo Solón
16h25
Amazon Case
Amazon a subject of rights
By Gregorio Mirabal
16h35
Amazon Case
The Amazon Tipping Point
By Carlos Nobre
16h45
Questions from judges
17h00
Amazon Case
Agricultural expansion
By Marcela Vecchione
17h10
Amazon Case
Balsa Deforestation
By Elizabeth Bravo
17h20
Questions from judges
17h35
Amazon Case
Mining in the Amazon
By Alexis Tiouka
17h45
Amazon Case
Hydroelectric plants in the Brazilian Amazon
By Antonia Melo
17h55
Questions from judges
18h10
Amazon Case
Impacts and threats to the Amazon
By Francisco Von Hildebrand
18h20
Amazon Case
Amazon Sacred Headwaters Initiative
By Domingo Peas
18h30
Amazon Case
Advances in the Amazon around the Rights of Nature
By Fatima Monasterio
18h40
Questions from judges
18h55
Earth Prosecutor final arguments
By Earth Prosecutor: Pablo Solón
19h00
Judge’s Arguments
By Judges: Alberto Acosta, Nancy Yáñez, Atossa Soltani, Rocío Silva Santiesteban, Leonardo Boff and Yaku Pérez
19h12
Closure words day 1
By Secretariat: Natalia Greene
Tribunal Closure
Tribunal Protagonists
Here you can find more about the Judges, Prosecutors, and Secretariat of the tribunal.
Alberto Acosta
Judge
Carolyn Raffensperger
Judge
Yaku Pérez
Judge
Enrique Viale
Judge
Lisa Mead
Judge
Osprey Orielle Lake
Judge
Rocio Silva Santisteban
Judge
Atossa Soltani
Judge
Nnimmo Bassey
Judge
Nancy Yáñez
Judge
Princess Esmeralda
Judge
Leonardo Boff
Judge
Julio Prieto
Earth Prosecutor
Pablo Solón
Earth Prosecutor
Natalia Greene
Secretariat
LEGAL Advisors
Fátima Monasterio
Legal Advisor
Mario Delgado
Legal Advisor
Francisco Bustamante
Legal Advisor
Supporting ORGANIZATIONS
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