“Mari Margil serves as the Executive Director of Center for Democratic and Environmental Rights (www.centerforenvironmentalrights.org) and program manager for CDER’s International Center for the Rights of Nature. In 2008, she served as a consultant to Ecuador’s national Constituent Assembly, helping to draft the world’s first Rights of Nature constitutional provisions. Margil is widely viewed as one of the leading global voices for the recognition of legally enforceable rights of ecosystems and nature.” In this interview, she speaks to how the Rights of Nature movement is bringing together unlikely partners in business, government and civil society to collaboratively generate a new emerging standard for transforming our human systems.

(Recorded July 2020)