Centering Indigenous Voices: Reflections from GARN’s Indigenous Council Gathering at UNPFII 2026

GARN's Indigenous Council convened at UNPFII 2026 to dialogue on Rights of Nature grounded in Indigenous worldviews, centering Indigenous voices in global governance forums.

Why this matters → Embedding Indigenous knowledge systems and ontologies into international rights-of-nature governance frameworks shifts the legitimacy and implementation pathways of planetary stewardship from Western legal models toward relational, land-based epistemologies.