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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. Can we reach this goal?

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Policy News: May 9, 2022

ESA

You can access these at the links below: Video: Knowledge in Nature: How Nature Can Help Grow a Better Future Roundtable. Blog post: Accounting for Nature on Earth Day 2022. Nature Based Solutions: Compendium of Federal Nature-Based Solutions for Coastal Communities, States, Tribes, and Territories.

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