Against the backdrop of failing environmental governance, rights of nature (RoN) are lauded as the paradigm shift needed to transform law's approach to nature. RoN have been increasingly proclaimed at the domestic level but remain mostly absent from international law. As examined in this article, this is notably as a result of some profound incompatibilities between international law and RoN, including the fact that most international treaties approach nature as a resource to be owned, exploited or protected for the sake of humans. However, despite this dominant approach to nature, some areas of international law, notably under the leadership of Indigenous peoples, are starting to acknowledge a more relational approach to nature, putting forward concepts of care, kinship, and representation of nature in international law. Building on these developments, this article offers a reflection on potential synergies between RoN and international law, specifically by changing the latter's approach to nature. It argues that some of the RoN concepts concerning duty of care, institutional representation of nature's voice, and ecocentrism could serve as a platform to reinterpret some of the anthropocentric principles of international law, creating some potential synergies between RoN and international law.

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创造国际法与自然权利之间的协同作用

在环境治理失败的背景下，自然权（RoN）被誉为转变法律对待自然的方式所需的范式转变。RoN 已越来越多地在国内层面得到宣布，但在国际法中却大多缺席。正如本文所探讨的，这主要是由于国际法与《自然》之间存在一些深刻的不相容，包括大多数国际条约将自然视为一种为了人类而拥有、开发或保护的资源。然而，尽管对自然采取了这种占主导地位的态度，但国际法的某些领域，特别是在土著人民的领导下，开始承认对自然采取更加相关的态度，在国际法中提出了关爱、亲属关系和自然代表的概念。在这些发展的基础上，本文反思了 RoN 与国际法之间的潜在协同作用，特别是通过改变后者对待自然的方式。它认为，一些关于注意义务、自然声音的机构代表性和生态中心主义的 RoN 概念可以作为重新解释国际法的一些人类中心原则的平台，从而在 RoN 和国际法之间创造一些潜在的协同作用。