This document summarizes the proceedings of an International Rights of Nature Tribunal held in Paris. It discusses violations of Mother Earth's inherent rights as outlined in Article 2, including the right to life and exist free from human disruptions. It notes that 90 companies have contributed to 63% of greenhouse gas emissions between 1854-2010. Major fossil fuel producers like Chevron, ExxonMobil and Saudi Aramco are among the top emitters. Despite negotiations at COP21, the text fails to adequately address emission cuts or limit fossil fuel extraction. Critics argue the COP process serves capital and power over the interests of the environment and climate justice. Experts testify on issues like fossil fuels, deforestation, water, market mechanisms,

1. Climate Crimes
against Nature
International Rights of Nature Tribunal
Paris

2. Systemic violation
of the Rights of Mother Earth
Article 2. Inherent Rights of Mother Earth
Mother Earth and all beings of which she is composed have the following inherent rights:
(a) the right to life and to exist;
(b) the right to be respected;
(c) the right to regenerate its bio-capacity and to continue its vital cycles and processes
free from human disruptions;
(d) the right to maintain its identity and integrity as a distinct, self-regulating and
interrelated being;
(e) the right to water as a source of life;
(f) the right to clean air;
(g) the right to integral health;
(h) the right to be free from contamination, pollution and toxic or radioactive waste;
(i) the right to not have its genetic structure modified or disrupted in a manner that
threatens it integrity or vital and healthy functioning;
(j) the right to full and prompt restoration for violation of the rights recognized in this
Declaration caused by human activities;

4. Anthropocene?

5. 90 companies contribute to 63% of
GHG emissions.
From 1854 to 2010
GHG emission totals
from these companies
has amounted to 914
gigatons of CO2. Total
GHG emissions from
all industrial sources
over the same period
equals 1,450 gigatons.
Tracing anthropogenic carbon dioxide and
methane emissions to fossil fuel and cement
producers, 1854–2010

6. 2010 emissions
Cumulative
1854–2010
Percent of
global
Entity MtCO2e MtCO2e 1751–2010
1. Chevron, USA 423 51,096 3.52 %
2. ExxonMobil,
USA 655 46,672 3.22 %
3. Saudi Aramco,
Saudi Arabia 1,550 46,033 3.17 %
4. BP, UK 554 35,837 2.47 %
5. Gazprom,
Russian
Federation 1,371 32,136 2.22 %
6. Royal
Dutch/Shell,
Netherlands 478 30,751 2.12 %
Total 90 carbon
majors 27,946 914,251 63.04 %
Total global
emissions 36,026 1,450,332 100.00 %

7. Emissions 1997 - 2007

9. UNFCCC - COP 21
• 196 Parties represented: 195 countries + the
European Union
• A budget of €170 million will be spent in total
(and the aim is to raise 20% of this sum through
sponsorship)
• 12 negotiating meetings since 2012. Around 90
days of negotiation.
• A bracketed text that doesn't address the key
issues: real emission cuts, limit fossil fuel
extraction, halt deforestation and reduce agri-
business.

11. The madness of the COP
and the logics of capital and power

12. The system

13. Against whom is our demand
• Corporations
• Governments
• UNFCCC
• Capitalist, productivist,
anthropocentric and patriarchal
system

14. • Fossil fuels (Maxime Combes) (Desmond D’Sa)
• Deforestation (GFC: Miguel Lovera and Kureeba David)
• Water (Maude Barlow) (Michal Kravcik)
• Market mechanisms (REDD), Climate Smart Agriculture
and Land use (LVC- Badrul Alam - BKF & Maria Isabel
Soc Carrillo CONAVIGUA)
• Bio-energy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS)
(Pat Mooney)
• Climate Change and Free trade agreements
(WTO,TPP,TTIP...) (Tony Clarke)
• Nuclear Energy (Roland Desbordes and Alexei
Nesterenko)
• Geoengineering (Silvia Riveiro)
• Sixth Mass Extinction (Allain Bougrain-Dubourg)