Mohammad Golam Sarwar is an assistant professor at the University of Dhaka in Bangladesh and a doctoral researcher at SOAS at the University of London. He has served as a legal consultant to the Bangladesh Ministry of Foreign Affairs, UN Development Program, and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
Rights of Nature laws are becoming a vital tool for addressing environmental injustice. From New Zealand and India to Ecuador and Bolivia, advocates have successfully secured legal rights for rivers, forests, and mountains. Granting rights to nature has the potential to expand environmental protections, strengthen indigenous rights, promote sustainable development, and alter how humans relate to nature. Despite these promises, rights of Nature laws have met with greater resistance in some countries than in others.