Rights of Nature: Time to shift the paradigm in the EU?

• Nikoletta Pikramenou, Human Rights Lawyer, PhD candidate

• Monday 8 January 2018

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Nature as a Living Entity  Despite the proliferation of environmental laws and treaties, the destruction of the natural world persists. One of the key reasons that this occurs is because modern environmental legal frameworks treat Nature as an object, tending to adopt an approach which does not protect the environment but leads to the commodification of Nature’s ecosystems. Nature’s…

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