Rights of Nature: Legal Perspectives from America

In this presentation, Ecologic Institute's International Climate Protection Fellow Mario Alejandro Delgado Galarraga, LLM reviews whether the evolution of Rights of Nature in America has influenced International Environmental Law, especially at a Regional level. It appraise and contrast national legal conducts with the Inter-American Court of Human Rights' Advisory Opinion "OC-23/17" (Environment and Human Rights). Thus, it centre on Comparative Law and International Environmental Law.
The presentation was held during the IUCN World Conservation Congress 2021.