Preceding and during COP30 in Belém, Brazil, the Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature (GARN) gathered with a clear and collective message: recognising the Rights of Nature is essential to confronting the climate crisis at its roots. Moving between streets, rivers, and negotiation rooms, GARN connected grassroots knowledge with international policy, showing that ecological governance led by Indigenous worldviews is not a distant ideal, but an urgent and living practice.
A Renewed Commitment to Mother Nature
The closing session of the 6th International Rights of Nature Tribunal, convened ahead of COP30 at the Universidade Federal do Pará, brought together judgments and reflections on the decline of the fossil fuel economy, extractivism, mining, and so-called climate solutions that perpetuate harm. The resulting declaration, A Renewed Commitment to Mother Nature, calls on the United Nations and other international institutions to take decisive action in defence of Earth’s future.
Find out more about GARN’s role in advancing the rights of Nature at COP30 here.
