Inside Climate News: Ireland Could Become the Next Nation to Recognize the Rights of Nature and a Human Right to a Clean Environment

Katie Surma writes about an Irish Parliamentary committee that proposed that the Irish government take a series of measures to advance constitutional amendments recognizing that nature has inherent rights to exist, perpetuate, and be restored, and that humans have a right to a clean environment and stable climate.  With this, Ireland could become the first European country to constitutionally recognize that nature possesses legal rights.

The Center for Democratic and Environmental Rights is engaged on this effort in Ireland. Read our press release.

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