This conference which takes place right before COP26, brings together young delegates from all around the world and serves as a space for capacity building, networking and policy training.

One of the major outputs of COY16 is the policy document crafted by youth voices globally, the Global Youth Statement, which tackles various topics. Under the demand "Politics and Policy making", they demand governments:

"To implement legal sanctions for actions and crimes against the environment (including ecocide), especially those coming from big corporations and fossil-fuel companies."

The Global Citizens’ Assembly, supported by UN Secretary General António Guterres and COP26 President Alok Sharma MP, voted that the crime of Ecocide should be enshrined in international and national laws, and that it should be firmly enforced.

The Global Assembly’s declaration, which is being presented to world leaders at the COP26 Climate Conference, says Ecocide should be “firmly enforced alongside existing environmental protection laws.”

Read more here.

Business must transition to more climate-friendly practices. Civil litigation is already being used to make corporations and governments take action on climate. But could a new international crime of Ecocide address the problem at source? We examine how business is adapting and consider established and new legal approaches for guiding businesses as they transition to more sustainable behaviours.

Speakers: Jojo Mehta, Sophie Dembinski, Andrew Harding, Roger Martella, Wendy Franks, Nine de Pater, Sjoukje van Oosterhout, Noah Walker-Crawford

Co-hosts: GermanWatch, International Bar Association, Ecosia, Stop Ecocide International

Panel Discussion with Q&A with Musical Provocation by classical pianist Cassie Yukawa and actor, director & theatre-maker, Simon McBurney.

Insurers, investors, CEOs and policy makers all know that profound changes are needed for humanity to move back within a safe operating space, but current structural conditions do not support such change. Ecocide law could provide the strategic parameter required to start shifting our economic practices from causing harm to creating harmony.

Speakers: Ralph Chami, Jojo Mehta, Mindahi Bastida, Gert Peter Bruch, Katie Hoffman

We supported a press conference with West Papuan independence leaders, parliamentarians, diplomats and activists to support the original protectors of the West Papuan rainforest, whose vision for an independent Green State includes establishing a crime of ecocide.

The Green State Vision offers world-leading solutions based on climate justice, tribal democracy, and indigenous land management.
Read media coverage of the event here and here.

Part 1 of 2: Panel discussion session and ‘concept launch’.
Addressing global climate and ecological crisis is now an existential necessity, and policy makers cannot do it alone. What if we could tap into the ocean of expertise that already exists across all sectors and all generations, generating precisely the questions and creative innovations required to create the future well-being of humanity and the planet? What if every institution and organisation, everywhere, dedicated their Friday afternoons to make this happen?

Speakers: Xiye Bastida, Jerome Foster,Alexandria Villaseñor, Jojo Mehta, Mike Robinson, Sally Ranney, Matthew Shribman. 
With grateful thanks to Bruichladdich.

Part 2 of 2: The panel of experts demonstrated the age-old concept of a stitching discussion (an industry specific example of a ’ Friday Afternoon Think-tank’) around:
The production, consumption and disposal of apparel threatens environmental and social justice on a devastatingly large scale. Can the cultural concept of ‘fashion’ be transformed? And can this industry rise creatively to the challenge of an international crime of ecocide on the horizon? How could the law be welcomed as a guardrail and guidance system for net zero apparel?

Speakers: Professor Kate Fletcher, Mairi Lowe, Jojo Mehta, Sophie Dembinski, Karen Finn, Galahad Clark
With grateful thanks to Bruichladdich.

Jojo Mehta, co-founder and Executive Director, Stop Ecocide International addressed the GLOBE Legislators Summit at the Scottish Parliament, Edinburgh on 6th November

Young Leaders panel at The Extreme Hangout at COP26 in Glasgow, featuring Jamie Hunter co-founder of Stop Ecocide Canada, the Canadian branch of the Stop Ecocide campaign.
(No recording available)

Approaching the criminalisation of ecocide and the rights of nature, as legal solutions to protect and care for the natural living world on a global and local scale. What concrete means of societal transformation can they offer to shift our relationship with nature from one of harm to harmony?

Contributors: Maite Mompo, Rodrigo Lledó and Paul Powlesland, Teresa Vicente and Louise Romain. (No recording available)

How can the profound traditions and practices of sacred guardianship be respected/included in the existing dominant legal system? Ecocide law reflects a factual reality (both physical and spiritual) - that if we damage the Earth, there are consequences. Could this protective law be a bridging piece towards rebalancing our relationship to Mother Nature?

Speakers: Mindahi Bastida, Kerexu Yxapyry,Tom Goldtooth, Juma Xipaia, Chief Ninawa, Rivelino Vera Gabriel, Gert Peter Bruch, Jojo Mehta, Princess Esmeralda of Belgium, Jessica Sweidan, Marcelo Salazar

In alliance with the Alliance of Mother Nature's Guardians

More than 80% of the world's population identify themselves as adhering to a religion. In all religions there are components of ethics and how to understand the natural world. To protect the most vulnerable is something that most traditions have. That's why faith voices are needed to get an international law on ecocide

Speakers: Alexandra Masako Goossens-Ishiia, , Rev James Baghwan, Rev Fletcher Harper, Rev Henrik Grape.
Musical provocation by Eve Pearson Maxwell.

¿Cómo se pueden respetar las tradiciones profundas y el cuidado sagrado y ser incluidos en el sistema legal dominante? ‘
La Ley del Ecocidio refleja una realidad fáctica (tanto física como espiritual): si causamos daño a la Tierra, esto conlleva consecuencias.
¿Podría esta ley protectora servir de puente para volver a equilibrar nuestra relación con la Madre Tierra?

Intervienen: Senador Raúl Paz Alonzo, Jefe Ninawa, Maite Mompó, Rodrigo Lledó, Nashieeli Nuñez, Verónica Inmunda, Atossa Soltani, Domingo Peas, Raúl Paz Alonzo, Mindahi Crescencio Bastida Muñoz, Gert Peter Bruch and Wanka Inti

The movement for the recognition of ecocide is a golden opportunity to unite all those who work tirelessly for the protection of climate, the environment, and our basic human rights.

Recognising ecocide as a crime at the international level can help support all of us: making big polluters accountable, setting healthy parameters for policy and corporate practice, offering local and indigenous communities a new legal tool, protecting future generations… the list goes on. As political and civil momentum grows on this issue, the time is right to join forces. Join us to discuss how we can work together and how this law can support you as an elected representative, an NGO, a climate activist, and so many more. Let’s take this to the next level!

Speakers: Andreas Magnusson, Marie Toussaint MEP (recording), Juma Xipaia, Jojo Mehta, Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle, Simon Holstrom MP, Alex Rafalowicz, Marcelo Salazar

The event was preceded by a lunch engagement & briefing for interested Parliamentarians.

Ecocide takes its place in ‘The Most Important Comic Book On Earth/Rewriting Extinction project’ graphic novel, along side high profile contributions by names such as Leo DiCaprio, Cara Delevigne & many more. You can get a copy here.

We met Project Coordinator Paul Goodenough for a ‘cup of tea’ at the amazingTchai Ovna and signed a copy of the book which is to be auctioned (with all proceeds going to chosen charities).

Speaking from Glasgow during the COP26 climate talks, Senator Raúl Paz Alonzo has asked the Mexican Government to recognise ecocide as the fifth Crime against World Peace and Security. Read more here

Stop Ecocide International was delighted to support She Changes Climate at their fringe event at the Pipe Factory, Glasgow.

Goodwill and ambition alone are insufficient to provoke the profound changes in practice required to face the global climate and ecological crisis, and those least at fault continue to suffer the most. Could an international crime of ecocide create the legal and moral parameter that is currently missing to protect the living world and begin to redress that balance?

Speakers:David Lammy, Seema Joshi, Jojo Mehta, Richard Rogers, Prof Dr Hermann E. Ott

United against ecocide: youth advocacy from around the globe.

Youth from Canada, Chile and Namibia gathered to talk about how to advance the mobilisation around ecocide, and what the world would look like with ecocide law in place.

An open space for reflections.
Led by Louise Romain, Grassroots lead, Stop Ecocide International.
(No recording available)