From Green Rights to Rights of Nature: Fostering Synergies

Main author: Cullet, Philippe
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Summary: Can the approach based on environment-related Human Rights be reconciled with the approach based on the Rights of Nature ? In this article, Phillipe Cullet studies the synergies between these methods and how they actually reinforce one another. In examining how these approaches are in reality complementary, the author highlights the necessity of framing a new category of rights that would bring them together : eco-human rights.