Ecuador court ruling leaves a legal gray area in environmental ...

Ecuador's highest court ruled in favor of Indigenous and local communities by rejecting a controversial decree that promised to shape how environmental ...

Kimberley Brown on LinkedIn: Ecuador court ruling leaves a legal ...

Ecuador's Constitutional Court made a weird ruling last month: The Decree 754 – which would have change environmental consultations, and was unilaterally…

Kimberley Brown Archives - Conservation news - Mongabay

... Ecuador — and where it can still be saved. Kimberley Brown 17 Jan 2024 · Ecuador court ruling leaves a legal gray area in environmental consultation. Kimberley ...

Nature is getting new legal rights – and winning in court - Wild Hope

In 2021, Ecuador's constitutional court ruled that plans to mine in Los Cedros contravened the forest's rights of nature, which had been ...

The conflict between Rights of Nature and mining in Ecuador ...

In 2021, Ecuador's Constitutional Court issued a landmark ruling, halting mining in the Los Cedros Protected Forest. Three pillars form the ...

Ecuador court rules pollution violates rights of a river ... - The Guardian

A ruling described by activists as “historic”, a court in Ecuador has ruled that pollution has violated the rights of a river that runs through the country's ...

Spanning Two Worlds, Judith Kimerling Explores Ecuador's ...

In 2002, a federal judge in New York dismissed a class action lawsuit against Texaco over the company's environmentally devastating operations ...

Ecuador's Rights of Nature: A New Legal Momentum? – JHULR

The Constitutional Court heavily ruled in favor of the plaintiff, ordering the Environmental Ministry to revoke the mining permits (Surma 2021).

Outcomes of Ecuador's Rights of Nature for Nature's Sake - lidsen

Their decision emphasized that violations were made well beyond the boundaries of nature's rights. They stated that people's rights to access ...

The Rights of Nature Prevail Again in Ecuador - YES! Magazine

After an appeal, the case was then taken to Ecuador's Constitutional Court. The claimants argued that if mining was to proceed in Los Cedros ...

Judicial Backlash Against the Rights of Nature in Ecuador

The appeal judgment concerns the unconstitutionality of environmental and water licenses issued by the former Ecuadorian Ministry of Environment and the former ...

Rights of Nature - CELDF - Championing Nature & Communities

The first cases have now been brought and litigated in Ecuador, where the courts upheld and affirmed the constitutional rights of ecosystems. They include a ...

Nature Lawyers Up - The New York Times

Perhaps the most meaningful case was decided in 2021, when Ecuador's Constitutional Court ruled that a copper and gold mine would violate ...

We demand that the violation of the rights of nature be recognised ...

CIVICUS speaks with Darío Iza Pilaquinga, president of the Kitu Kara People of the Kichwa nationality of Ecuador, about a historic court ...

Ecuador's Amazon, Rights of Nature, and the Dilemma of the 2008 ...

donors would have to pay Ecuador to offset the oil revenues the country would forgo by leaving ... The first court ruling that explicitly ...

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Ruling No. 1149-19-JP/21 Reporting Judge: Agustín Grijalva Jiménez

Emilio Suárez Salazar, for the company Inv Minerales. Ecuador S.A; Esperanza Martínez Yánez, auditor and environmental biologist; Roberto Paz y Miño and.

Reversal of Fortune | The New Yorker

Since 1993, a group of Ecuadorans had been pursuing an apparently fruitless legal struggle to hold Texaco responsible for environmental ...

Lake Erie now has legal rights, just like you - Vox

Ecuador, however, offers one example of concrete change. After the country enshrined the rights of nature in its constitution, locals have ...

Perenco v. Ecuador, Interim Decision on the Environmental ...

44. Perenco also contended that Ecuador's environmental claim was deficient as a matter of law ...