“ECOCIDE”

is a word to describe what is happening to our planet; the mass damage and destruction of the natural living world.  It literally means “killing one’s home”.
And right now, in most of the world, no-one is held responsible.  

It’s time to change the rules.  It’s time to protect our home.

We are working, together with a growing global network of lawyers, diplomats, and across all sectors of civil society, towards making ecocide an international crime.

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We, the undersigned, citizens and residents of Canada, call upon the House of Commons in Parliament assembled to publicly declare its support for an international crime of ecocide.

 

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OPEN LETTER
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WHO WE ARE

Dona Grace-Campbell
National Director and co-founder, Stop Ecocide Canada. Podcast for the Planet series Executive Producer, Writer and Director

Anna Clark
Youth Liaison, Stop Ecocide Canada

Paul Grace-Campbell
Podcast for the Planet Writer and Director, Canadian Board

Judy Green
Political Advisor, Stop Ecocide Canada. Director, Canadian Board

Jamie Hunter
Youth Co-Founder, Stop Ecocide Canada

Louise Romain
Member of the Canadian Board

 

Law and Policy Advisors

Lisa Oldring

Professor Darryl Robinson

 

STOP ECOCIDE CANADA PODCAST

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EVENT ON PARLIAMENT HILL

The first ever cross party discussion on ecocide law.

The Business Case for Ecocide Law
Co-sponsored by MPs from 4 Canadian Federal Parties.
With introduction in French by Bloc MP Monique Pauze Shadow Minister for the Environment.

STOP ECOCIDE CANADA WEBINARS

 

Open Letter From Canadian Youth: Stop Ecocide

This is an open letter from young Canadians under 25 to the federal government. We demand that our leaders act with urgency and commitment in the face of the global climate and ecological crises.

We call on the Canadian government to declare support for making ecocide an international crime.

Canadian Open Letter

Calling all Canadian organisations, companies and NGOs:
Join us in asking the Canadian government to publicly declare its support for an international crime of Ecocide

 

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Support our crucial work to make ecocide an international crime

Whatever you donate here is more than financial support. It's an alignment, with ours, of the most powerful creative force on the planet, second only to that of nature herself: human intention.

Together, we are actively creating the bridge to a future where life is honoured and protected.

SUPPORTERS

David Suzuki

Award-winning geneticist, broadcaster, world leader in sustainable ecology, and co-founder of the David Suzuki Foundation.

"Ecocide is not only a crime against life, it is suicidal for us because we are the apex predator that is utterly dependent on nature's services."

Maude Barlow

Author, co-founder of Council of Canadians, Blue Planet Project, and Chair of Board of Food and Water.

“Unlimited growth assumes unlimited resources, and this is the genesis of Ecocide. The move to commodify all of nature is the next step in its destruction. The earth is not ours to plunder. Nature has rights as surely as any that exist.”

Melissa Mollen Dupuis

Boreal campaigner at David Suzuki Foundation, co-founder of Idle No More Quebec, Innu Nation.

“We have to learn to fight with laws, with rights, and we have to take roles that are traditionally not ours. We need terms such as ecocide, but they need to be based in indigenous knowledge, stories, and in the recognitions of our terms, of our ways of doing, as valuable as the system that has been created around it.”

Chile Eboe-Osuji

4th President of the International Criminal Court

"I’m firmly in favour of seeing ecocide made an international crime over which the ICC has jurisdiction."

Chief Dana Tizya-Tramm

Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation,
leading voice on the rapid climate change impacting the North

”International laws on ecocide are very much needed to begin some of the first inclines of harmonizing and bringing balance to colonial law.”

Darryl Robinson

Professor, Queen's University, Gold Medalist at the University of Western Ontario Faculty of Law and Jerome Lipper Award winner.

“Criminal law has often tended to turn a blind eye to “white collar” crime by wealthy elites. A crime of ecocide may help reduce such structural injustices by reframing the most rapacious acts as criminal and not commercial. Even if one believes that there should be a lot less recourse to criminal law, ecocide is among the most serious harms that deserve to be criminalized.”

 

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Stop Ecocide International is driving the global conversation on recognition of ecocide as an international crime and its potential for deterring destructive practices, protecting vital ecosystems and catalysing positive systems change.