https://insideclimatenews.org/news/25022022/panama-rights-of-nature/
"Panama is the latest country to recognize the legal rights of nature, giving
environmentalists a new tool to fight ecological harm.
After just over a year of debate in Panama’s National Assembly, President
Laurentino Cortizo signed legislation on Thursday that defines nature as “a
unique, indivisible and self-regulating community of living beings, elements
and ecosystems interrelated to each other that sustains, contains and
reproduces all beings.”
The legislation includes six paragraphs of rights extended to nature, including
the “right to exist, persist and regenerate its life cycles,” the “right to
conserve its biodiversity,” and the “right to be restored after being affected
directly or indirectly by any human activity.”
Panama now joins Bolivia, New Zealand, Bangladesh, Ecuador, Brazil, Colombia
and Mexico, among other countries, which have either issued court decisions,
enacted laws or amended constitutions recognizing the legal rights of nature.
Panama’s law will go into effect one year after it is published in the
country’s Official Gazette.
The legislation also imposes new obligations on Panama’s government, including
a requirement that its plans, policies and programs respect the rights of
nature. It instructs the government to develop manufacturing processes and
energy policies that safeguard ecosystems, and it requires the government to
promote the rights of nature as part of its foreign policy."
Via Future Crunch Mar 26, 2022:
https://futurecrunch.com/good-news/
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