The 6th International Rights of Nature Tribunal continues with its third and final session titled A New Pledge For Mother Nature, a culminating event that will bring together findings, judgments, and reflections from the two previous sessions of this 6th historic Tribunal. Taking place in Belém, this final hearing will center on the most pressing environmental challenges of our time, especially those driven by fossil fuel dependency and extractive models disguised as green transitions. It will revisit the judgments delivered during the previous sessions in New York and Toronto, which addressed the end of the fossil fuel era and corporate and governmental accountability, while positioning the Rights of Nature as a legal and ethical response to the planetary crisis.
Entitled “A New Pledge for Mother Nature”, in this event GTAGlobal Tapestry of Alternatives vision will be present with the presence of Ashish Kothari, as a judge in the panel. Alos, Shrishtee Bajpai will be presente in the panel “Victories of the Rights of Nature & 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.”.