http://dx.doi.org/10.59704/c8addd7cc4b104b5 https://verfassungsblog.de/the-bloom-of-natures-rights/ The Bloom of Nature’s Rights - On the IACtHR’s Recognition of Nature’s Legal Personality in AO-32/25 Amor Vázquez, Ecab Amor-Jürgenssen, Theresa eng 2025-07-18 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 Advisory Opinion Climate Crisis Climate Emergeny climate litigation Human Rights IACtHR RIghts of Nature Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 The Inter-American Court of Human Rights’ (IACtHR) advisory opinion on human rights and the climate emergency (AO-32/25) addresses numerous dimensions of the climate crisis, setting an important precedent for the protection of our planet. This post focuses on one particularly significant development: the IACtHR’s recognition of Nature as a subject of rights. We argue that the IACtHR’s pronouncements on this subject mark the advent of an ecocentric paradigm whose implications are likely to be far-reaching and transformative.