Jacinda Ardern calls climate change ‘one of the greatest challenges of our time’ and pledges carbon-neutral government by 2025

Belgian Green parties introduce bill to make ecocide a crime - and support ecocide amendment to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.

President Macron “shares ambition” to establish international crime of ecocide.

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French head of state’s response to citizens assembly opens way to legal protection of the Earth.

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May 22nd is the International Day for Biological Diversity and the theme chosen by the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) this year is “Our solutions are in nature”.

Michael Heim im Dialog mit Doris Ragettli, Mit-Gründerin der Bewegung 'Rights of Mother Earth'.

On April 9 2013, the City Council of Santa Monica voted 7-0 to adopt the state’s first ever Bill of Rights for Sustainability, directing the city to “recognize the rights of people, natural communities and ecosystems to exist, regenerate and flourish.”

Nature has recently been recognized as a subject rather than an object of rights in some Latin American countries.

This is the case in Bolivia, on a legal level, and in Ecuador, on a constitutional level.

LA PAZ, May 19 2014 (IPS) - The law for the defence of Mother Earth passed by Bolivia a year and a half ago has not yet moved from good intentions to concrete action.

In New Zealand, the Whanganui River, Mount Taranaki and Te Urewera have been granted legal status.

The Holy River Ganga, the Yamuna River as well as the Himalayan Gangotri and Yamunotri glaciers have been declared as living human entities by the High court of Uttarakhand.

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The constitutional Court granted the Atrato River legal rights, which have also been extended to the Colombian Amazon region.

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Held on 11 December at the UN in Geneva in collaboration with OSI, we issued a statement, which we wrote in collaboration with the attendees.

David Attenborough has said humans have “overrun the planet” in a warning that the natural world is on the precipice of “disaster”.

The Brazilian government has rejected $20 million in aid from G-7 leaders to fight the fires in the Amazon rainforest. CBS News correspondent Manuel Bojorquez spoke with Tashka Yawanawa, chief of the indigenous Yawanawa people, about the threats they are facing in the region.

Dozens of small nations ramped up their commitments to cut carbon emissions at the United Nations Climate Action Summit. But the world's largest greenhouse gas polluters offered only silence...

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(By Marianne Lavelle / insideclimatenews.org)