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Why Natural Rights Governance Is the Only Viable Path to Protect People and Planet . The world has been talking about the language of the Paris Agreement promises, pathways, and promises of temperature control for almost ten years now. However, the climate is still disintegrating. Storms are worse; droughts extended and displaced more permanently. Paris was a treaty of intent; missing moral architecture is Natural Rights Led Governance (NRLG). Nationally Determined Contri

As cities continue to expand and modern skylines and technology redefine the concept of progress, questions surrounding sustainability, livability, and harmony with nature become increasingly urgent. To explore these ideas, we spoke with Benjamin Ong , an urban ecologist from Malaysia whose work focuses on the intersection of ecology, biodiversity, and human communities in urban spaces. Having spent over a decade working on community-based conservation and environmental educa

Part 2 As I argued in the first part of the theory on Natural Rights Led Governance (NRLG), the Development–Destruction Trap exposes how modern governance structures are enabling intergenerational harm and planetary injustice by prioritizing GDP growth and resource extraction over life-supporting systems. This second part engages in a necessary alternative: the paradigm of Nature’s Sovereignty (NS). Here, I bring forward the exact formulations and propositions articulated in