Does Nature Have Rights?
As the climate crisis intensifies, the concept that nature has rights is gaining both political and legal ground. Indigenous traditions do not separate humans from other living elements of our shared planet, and this philosophical approach has been influential on legal considerations of nature’s rights.
The Promise Institute held a discussion on the rights of nature, the role of Indigenous philosophies in the movement, and relevant legal developments in the Americas.
- Antonette Cordero
- Coastal Band of the Chumash Nation, Clinical Supervising Attorney in the Environmental Law Clinic at University of California, Berkeley School of Law
- Carlos Andreés Baquero-Díaz
- New York University, formerly Dejusticia
- David Cordero Heredia
- Associate Professor at Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador (on leave), Visiting Fellow of the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program at Cornell University
- Moderation by Kate Mackintosh
- Promise Institute Executive Director