Position Paper

This position paper assesses whether the draft EPSMP 2025 advances energy sovereignty by reducing long‑term exposure to external shocks, enables a just energy transition that ensures equity, community stewardship, and intergenerational justice, and aligns with Natural Rights‑Led Governance by grounding energy decision‑making in nature’s sovereignty, rights of nature, integrity, and accountable, peaceful governance. Read Our Position Paper This paper outlines our institutional

COP30 is typically viewed as a roadmap for climate finance and action, but this position paper highlights it as a big step toward rights-centered climate governance. Drawing on the Natural Rights-Led Governance (NRLG) framework, we show how COP30's emphasis on human rights, Indigenous rights, land rights, traditional knowledge, and viewing ecosystems as more than just carbon sinks that lines up with NRLG's core ideas like rights for nature, accountability, justice, protecting