Category: biodiversity
28.10.2021
The Rights of Nature in Ecuador, Bolivia and Aotearoa New Zealand: Indigenous Peoples as Earth defenders and legal innovators
When talking about the protection of Nature, is crucial to stress the role of Indigenous peoples, whose cosmovision…
06.06.2021
The anthropocentric approach in International Environmental Law
The 1972 Stockholm Declaration of the UN Conference on Human Environment states in its first article: “1. Man…
26.03.2021
The emergence of Earth Jurisprudence
The growing awareness and concerns over the environmental crisis have produced a global movement that pushes for a…
23.11.2019
The impacts of marine debris on marine and coastal biodiversity addressed by Decision XIII/10 of the COP to the Convention on Biological Diversity
In recent years, marine debris (“any persistent, manufactured or processed solid material discarded, disposed of, or abandoned in…
19.07.2019
Rutzolijirisaxik Voluntary Guidelines
In November 2018, during its fourteenth meeting at Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, the COP to the Convention on Biological Diversity…
02.02.2018
Programme of Work on Article 8(j) and related provisions
During its first meeting, held in Sevilla, Spain, the Working Group formulated recommendations for a Programme of Work…
05.01.2018
The Convention on Biological Diversity and the Protection of Traditional Knowledge: article 8(j)
As previously noted, the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) considers the protection of Traditional Knowledge (TK) as a…
30.12.2017
Traditional Knowledge in the Rio Declaration and Agenda 21
The Rio Declaration and Agenda 21 provide explicit international recognition of the symbiotic aspects of indigenous peoples’ relationship…
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