The Sixth International Tribunal on the Rights of Nature continued with its third and final session, entitled “A New Commitment to Mother Nature,” a culminating event that brought together the conclusions, judgments, and reflections of the two previous sessions of this historic Sixth Tribunal. This final hearing, held in Belém, focused on the most pressing environmental challenges of our time, especially those driven by dependence on fossil fuels and extractive models disguised as green transitions. It reviewed the judgments issued during the previous sessions in New York and Toronto, which addressed the end of the fossil fuel era and corporate and government responsibility, while positioning the Rights of Nature as a legal and ethical response to the planetary crisis.
The GTAGlobal Tapestry of Alternatives's vision was present at this event with Ashish Kothari serving as a judge on the panel. In addition, Shrishtee Bajpai was present on the panel “Victories for the Rights of Nature and AlternativesAre activities and initiatives, concepts, worldviews, or action proposals by collectives, groups, organizations, communities, or social movements challenging and replacing the dominant system that perpetuates inequality, exploitation, and unsustainabiity. In the GTA we focus primarily on what we call "radical or transformative alternatives", which we define as initiatives that are attempting to break with the dominant system and take paths towards direct and radical forms of political and economic democracy, localised self-reliance, social justice and equity, cultural and knowledge diversity, and ecological resilience. Their locus is neither the State nor the capitalist economy. They are advancing in the process of dismantling most forms of hierarchies, assuming the principles of sufficiency, autonomy, non-violence, justice and equality, solidarity, and the caring of life and the Earth. They do this in an integral way, not limited to a single aspect of life. Although such initiatives may have some kind of link with capitalist markets and the State, they prioritize their autonomy to avoid significant dependency on them and tend to reduce, as much as possible, any relationship with them..”