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The Rights of Nature — Can an Ecosystem Bear Legal Rights?

Law Columbia

In 2018, a group of young plaintiffs filed a special constitutional claim called tutela alleging that their fundamental rights to a healthy environment, life, health, food, and water were threatened by climate change and the government’s failure to reduce deforestation in the Amazon. Province of Entre Ríos, et al.

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Policy News: April 25, 2022

ESA

In an executive order made in honor of Earth Day, the White House announced the creation of a U.S. The order also includes incentives to reduce deforestation internationally and promote economic development in areas heavily dependent on the timber industry. Federal Register opportunities. National Nature Assessment.

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