Panel on Latin America: Global Forum on Rights of Nature & Human Right to a Healthy Environment

At the 2020 Global Forum, legal experts explored how Ecuador, Bolivia, and Colombia reshape environmental governance by embedding the rights of nature into law. Through constitutional reforms and court rulings, these countries treat nature as a legal subject that is rooted in Indigenous worldviews like “Buen Vivir”. This panel highlights Latin America’s pioneering model of Earth jurisprudence in which civil society and courts, not just legislators, drive legal innovation and inspire powerful models for ecological justice and new global legal frameworks.