Juan Carlos Navarro, Republic of Panama
Heeta Lakhani, SDG News
Grant Wilson, Earth Law Center
Advancing Nature’s Rights from Principle to Practice brings together Juan Carlos Navarro and Callie Veelenturf, Founder of the For Nature Foundation, to explore how the vision of a Universal Declaration of Nature’s Rights can be translated into real-world action; building on the keynote, the discussion will examine how governments, legal innovators, and civil society are operationalizing rights-based approaches to protect ecosystems, from policy design and legal frameworks to community-led stewardship and enforcement, while highlighting the role of partnerships and aligned capital in scaling impact, and offering a practical roadmap for embedding nature’s rights into the systems that shape resilience, accountability, and long-term prosperity.