Nigeria, Nov. 13 -- The International Rights of Nature Tribunal, a project of the Global Alliance for the Right of Nature (GARN), has called for an end to ecocide and the global phase-out of fossil fuels, warning that the planet's ecological collapse can no longer be ignored.

The group made the call on Wednesday during a side event to mark the tribunal's 6th International sitting at the ongoing 30th edition of the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP30) in Belem, Brazil.

According to a statement issued at the end of the convening, the group released a new declaration titled "A New Pledge for Mother Nature."

In the declaration, the tribunal urged governments and citizens to recognise that nature possesses inherent rights - just...