Eriel Derenger - Coastal Gaslink Pipeline, Canada - 6th International Rights of Nature Tribunal

The International Rights of Nature Tribunal joined Climate Week in New York in calling for a transition from fossil fuels and advocating for the Rights of Nature as a key response to the climate crisis.

An expert panel addressed global cases where the fossil fuel industry has violated Nature’s rights, harmed human rights and environmental defenders, and pushed the planet towards catastrophe. Cases covered false climate solutions, pipeline projects, oil spills, and sacrifice zones.

More information: rightsofnaturetribunal.org/tribunals/end-of-fossil-fuels-tribunal-2024

Eriel Tchekwie Deranger is a member of the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation (ACFN) and Executive Director/Founder of Indigenous Climate Action (ICA). Deranger is active in international Indigenous rights advocacy movements participating in various boards and UN bodies. Deranger’s work focuses on Indigenous rights, climate justice and intersectional movements. She is recognized for her role as spokespersons for her community in the international Indigenous Tar Sands Campaign. Prior to this she was a Specific Land Claims and Treaty Land Entitlement Researcher for the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations.

Deranger has written for various magazines and publications; featured in documentary films including Elemental (2012); and is regularly interviewed for national and international media outlets.