TERRA at NYU Law

The Earth Rights Research & Action (TERRA) Program at New York University (NYU) School of Law is a global collaborative hub for research, advocacy, and strategic legal action on ecological emergencies. TERRA NYU Law is highly interdisciplinary and experimental, pursuing bold and novel actions with a range of collaborators across geographies and disciplines—from biological and climate sciences to human rights law and international governance to Indigenous and multispecies justice advocacy and beyond. In doing so, we aim to realize human and more-than-human justice and rights within the limited timeframe left to avoid extreme scenarios of ecological deterioration. TERRA NYU Law currently hosts three lines of work: (1) the Climate Law Accelerator (CLX); (2) the Right to a Healthy Environment (R2HE) Toolkit; and (3) the More-Than-Human Life (MOTH) Project. For more information on each line of work, please read below. CLX is dedicated to strategic legal research, advocacy, and action on the climate emergency, in particular with respect to loss and damage. To read more about CLX, please visit www.clxtoolkit.com. Our line of work on the right to a healthy environment (R2HE) focuses on documenting and analyzing trends within the body of law related to the right to a healthy environment, in order to disseminate key insights for practitioners. To read more about R2HE, please visit www.r2he.info. The MOTH Project is a legal and interdisciplinary initiative that integrates concern for human rights and welfare into a larger concern for the rights and well-being of the more-than-human world and the web of life that sustains us all. To learn more about the MOTH Project, please visit www.mothrights.org. https://linktr.ee/terranyu