The Rights of Nature

PLENARY SESSIONS 1

DATE: October 26, 2023

TIME: 2:00 pm

3:30 pm

LOCATION: Julio Otero Auditorium Side B

SPEAKERS: Maria Mercedes Sánchez and Erik Gómez-Baggethun

MODERATOR(s): Paola Arias

María Mercedes Sánchez
Coordinator of the United Nations “Harmony with Nature” Programme. This Programme strengthens interdisciplinary collaborations aiming to promote a non-anthropocentric or Earth-centered worldview, in which humans are only part of a wider community of beings.

Erik Gómez-Baggethun
Professor in Environmental Governance at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences and a Senior Research Associate at the University of Oxford. He is the current President-Elect of the International Society for Ecological Economics. Erik’s research deals, among others, with non-monetary valuation of nature.