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Functional Government

An institution of representation for a reality that crosses borders.

TEON organises capacities of its own and develops agreements so that the rights of nature find expression in the decisions that matter. This page distinguishes what the institution exercises today, what it is designing, what its agreements confer, and what will require constitutive acts.

TEON develops a model of non-state functional sovereignty: an architecture of representation, responsibilities, and capacities defined by its own organs and by the agreements it enters into with states and other institutions. It claims no territorial jurisdiction and no international personality recognised by every state.

How to read this page
OperativeEstablished and in force today
In developmentDesigned, not yet constituted
SubscribedAgreed with a counterpart
ProposedRequires a constitutive act
I

Current functions

What the institution exercises today, with its documentary basis.

Institutional Charter · TEON/DOC/2024/01The founding instrument: preamble, founding principles and ratification.
Operative
Institutional Principles · Articles I–IVLegality, political neutrality, transparency and institutional responsibility.
Operative
Principles of CooperationSeven guarantees that bind every programme and alliance.
Operative
Office of the Founding PresidentFounding vision and institutional representation.
Operative
Office of the Chief ExecutiveOperations, alliances and execution.
Operative
Public registry of documentsEvery instrument published with serial, year and status.
Operative
II

Functions in development

Designed and under construction; they do not yet confer powers before third parties.

Doctrine of environmental capitalismFramework for preserved nature to compete economically with extraction.
In development
Access to capital markets for natural patrimonyWork with Deloitte Latin America and legal counsel from Dentons so that non-extractive natural patrimony can reach traditional capital markets.
In development
Bioeconomy legislation in EcuadorSupport for a legislative proposal to promote the bioeconomy and attract sustainable investment.
In development
Measurement and verification frameworkMethod, period and source for every indicator the institution publishes.
In development
Youth chaptersParticipation of young people as authors of the agenda, with their own rules.
In development
Policy on disclosure · Phases II and IIIInstitutional architecture, platforms, models and frameworks.
In development
III

Agreements and their scope

Cooperation is voluntary and its scope is exactly what each text says. Every agreement is published in the Registry with its status.

Agreements in the AmericasInstitutional cooperation signed with SICA.
Subscribed
Andean Community, CELAC and CAFCooperation under discussion. A conversation is not a signed agreement; each text will be published here with its scope.
In development
Alliances with youth organisationsConvening and joint programmes across Ibero-America.
Subscribed
Cooperation with statesEach initiative is structured within recognised legal instruments and reviewed by independent counsel.
In development
IV

Future organs

Conditions are stated before they exist. Nothing here is presented as operative.

Permanent seat in GenevaAnnounced; requires the corresponding constitutive and legal acts.
Proposed
Secretariat and advisory councilOrgans of governance with defined mandates and published rules.
Proposed
Instruments of international representationRecognition of nature as a subject of rights in the international order.
Proposed

An appearance at a forum is not an endorsement by its organiser, and a conversation is not a signed agreement. Every claim on this site carries its document, its date and its status.

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