Rights of Nature Ecuador and Bolivia
RIGHTS OF NATURE
ECUADOR&
BOLIVIA
Cynthia Navarrete
• Ecuador: President
Rafael Correa
• Bolivia: President Evo
Morales
• Ecuador and Bolivia are increasingly admired on the international scene for their opposition to
U.S. interference in the democratic processes of the 21st-century socialism. • This Social Revolution was initiated by
Venezuela since 1999
(Hugo Chavez)
Terms:
• Pachamama = Mother Earth
(Indigenous language – Quechua)
• El buen vivir or “Good Living” (Sumac
Kawsay) is defined by the Ecuadorian government as, “living at its fullest in harmony with oneself, with the community and with nature, by covering needs, achieving a dignified quality of life and death; loving and being loved; the healthy flourishing of all individuals in peace; and achieving a perpetuation of human cultures”
(SENPLADES, 2012)
RIGHTS OF NATURE
QUESTIONS..
What do we mean when we say that nature should have rights?
• the current system of law =
NATURE = PROPERTY
• Rights of Nature = Nature is no merely property that can be owned
• NATURE = ENTITIES that have independent right to exist and flourish
• Enforce by: People, governments and communites Why do we need to adopt legal structures recognizing Rights of
Nature?
• Species in dangerous
• Global warming is far more accelerated • Deforestation continues unabated around the world
• Overfishing
ECUADOR
•New ideology
“Good living”
•September 2008, Ecuador became the first country in the world to recognize rights for nature in its constitution
•The Yasuni ITT initiative is referring to the plan to not drill oil in Yasuni
National Park and the biosphere kept from being violated.
International community takes responsibility and pay 3.5 billion – FAIL
BOLIVIA
•In April 2010, Bolivia hosted the World People’s
Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of
Mother Earth,
•At the conference, the Universal Declaration of
The Rights of Mother
ECUADOR&
BOLIVIA
Cynthia Navarrete
• Ecuador: President
Rafael Correa
• Bolivia: President Evo
Morales
• Ecuador and Bolivia are increasingly admired on the international scene for their opposition to
U.S. interference in the democratic processes of the 21st-century socialism. • This Social Revolution was initiated by
Venezuela since 1999
(Hugo Chavez)
Terms:
• Pachamama = Mother Earth
(Indigenous language – Quechua)
• El buen vivir or “Good Living” (Sumac
Kawsay) is defined by the Ecuadorian government as, “living at its fullest in harmony with oneself, with the community and with nature, by covering needs, achieving a dignified quality of life and death; loving and being loved; the healthy flourishing of all individuals in peace; and achieving a perpetuation of human cultures”
(SENPLADES, 2012)
RIGHTS OF NATURE
QUESTIONS..
What do we mean when we say that nature should have rights?
• the current system of law =
NATURE = PROPERTY
• Rights of Nature = Nature is no merely property that can be owned
• NATURE = ENTITIES that have independent right to exist and flourish
• Enforce by: People, governments and communites Why do we need to adopt legal structures recognizing Rights of
Nature?
• Species in dangerous
• Global warming is far more accelerated • Deforestation continues unabated around the world
• Overfishing
ECUADOR
•New ideology
“Good living”
•September 2008, Ecuador became the first country in the world to recognize rights for nature in its constitution
•The Yasuni ITT initiative is referring to the plan to not drill oil in Yasuni
National Park and the biosphere kept from being violated.
International community takes responsibility and pay 3.5 billion – FAIL
BOLIVIA
•In April 2010, Bolivia hosted the World People’s
Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of
Mother Earth,
•At the conference, the Universal Declaration of
The Rights of Mother