Field Notes from Around the world: Rights of Nature in Action
Rights and Nature Hub, The Stables, MYO King’s Cross, 2 Trematon Walk, London N1 9FB
About this Event
Event schedule
10:30 AM – Water Ceremony & Nature Gathering – Gasholder Park, St Pancras Basin.
11:15 AM – Collective walk to panel event
11:30 AM – 1 PM – Stories and lessons from the movement at The Stables, MYO King’s Cross, 2 Trematon Walk, London N1 9FB
Participants are welcome to attend either or both events.
Around the world, a growing movement is redefining humanity’s relationship with Nature. The Rights of Nature movement recognises that ecosystems like rivers, forests, oceans, and even entire bioregions, have inherent rights.
From Indigenous leadership in the Americas to emerging legal frameworks in Europe, Africa, Asia-Pacific, Antarctica and around the globe, communities are advancing new approaches to environmental protection rooted in law and relationships.
Join Lawyers for Nature, the Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature (GARN), Letters to the Earth and their friends for Rights of Nature in Action: Field Notes and Stories from Around the World. Through storytelling, reflection, and dialogue, global Rights of Nature advocates will bring their unique perspectives and hands-on experiences to London Climate Action Week.
Climate discussions often focus on policy and technological solutions. While these are essential, they can leave little room for the emotional and relational dimension of environmental action. Many people working in climate spaces are motivated by a deep love for the natural world, yet this connection is rarely centered within our climate forums.
This event intends to create space during London Climate Action Week to reconnect climate leaders, policymakers, and advocates with the living ecosystems around them to answer the questions: What can we learn from each other? How can we support each other?
Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature (GARN), Lawyers for Nature, Letters to the Earth, Antarctic Rights, Synchronicity Earth, We are Nature Based CIC UK
Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature (GARN)
The Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature (GARN) is a network of organisations and individuals founded in 2010 to establish legal recognition for the intrinsic rights of ecosystems to exist, persist, and regenerate. GARN works globally to transition from treating Nature as property to recognising it as a rights-bearing entity. garn.org
Lawyers for Nature
Lawyers for Nature is a community interest company with a unique approach—to reimagine the law and create systemic change so that life on Earth, in its many forms, may thrive. It's a collective of lawyers, researchers, strategists, academics, activists, students, and campaigners, who have come together to work on behalf of Nature. lawyersfornature.com
Letters to the Earth
Letters to the Earth is an award-winning global participatory and story-telling organisation. Launched in the UK in 2019 by theatre-makers, artists and writers, the aim of Letters to the Earth is to activate, inspire and support change-makers for a liveable planet. letterstotheearth.com
Synchronicity Earth
Synchronicity Earth is a UK-registered charity focusing on global biodiversity conservation. It is research-driven, raising and distributing donor funding to the conservation sector. To increase the impact of this funding, they develop programmes, collaborating with others to coordinate action. synchronicityearth.org
We are Nature Based CIC UK
we are Nature Based is a community interest company that brings together subject matter experts from across the UK to offer advice, guidance, consultancy and delivery of solutions to a range of land and organisational management challenges. wearenaturebased.co.uk
Antarctic Rights
Antarctic Rights campaigns for the recognition of Antarctica as an autonomous entity with the right to have a voice in decision making that affects it. Antarctica and the Southern Ocean is a beautiful, wild community that is vital to the health of Earth and we must safeguard it from harm. antarcticrights.org
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