A New Pledge For Mother Nature

The concluding session in Belém will consolidate the analyses, findings, and judgments of this 6th international hearing. The program will be structured around six 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 Era” and  “Impacts of Mining & the Post-Extractivism Era”

• 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”. 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 organized in the framework of the People’s Summit and 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