Coming together for COP30 marked a moment of reflection and renewal for GARN as it celebrated its 15-year anniversary. Gatherings across Belém and beyond honoured the relationships, struggles, and victories that have shaped the movement over the past decade and a half.
GARN’s 15-year celebration at Combu Island
“Humanity must choose: continue with incremental, market-driven fixes or embrace a systemic transformation that restores balance between people and planet.”
Presented at COP30 GARN’s position paper issues a clear and uncompromising call for deep structural transformation of global governance systems. It challenges the dominant climate paradigm and asserts that incremental reforms and market-based solutions are no longer sufficient to address the scale of ecological breakdown we face.
Grounded in Rights of Nature and Earth Jurisprudence, the paper sets out a framework for reimagining law, governance, and ethics in service of life itself. It outlines:
- Why incrementalism is failing to respond to intersecting climate, biodiversity, and social crises
- How Rights of Nature reframes governance, shifting from extraction and control to reciprocity and responsibility
- Strategic integration across COP30 pillars, including Energy Transition, Biodiversity, Health, Finance, and NDCs
- The urgency of rejecting the financialization of Nature, which deepens ecological harm rather than preventing it
- The central role of Indigenous leadership and Earth Jurisprudence in shaping just and effective climate solutions
Read more about GARN’s involvement and influence in COP30 here.
