ONLINE: Thursday, December 4th, 15:00 CET

On 23 July 2025, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) issued its Advisory Opinion on States' obligations concerning climate change. Requested through a UN General Assembly resolution led by Vanuatu and other States, this Opinion is a milestone in clarifying governments' legal duties to prevent and redress climate harm.

This development follows the Advisory Opinion of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR) in July 2025, which recognised the climate emergency as a human rights crisis and affirmed environmental protection as a jus cogens norm. The ICJ and IACtHR Opinions exposed compliance gaps, including weak enforcement of the Paris Agreement, and strengthened the legal foundations for climate governance and environmental protection worldwide.

Youth movements including World's Youth for Climate Justice (WYCJ) and the Pacific Islands Students Fighting Climate Change (PISFCC) were central in achieving these legal breakthroughs. They succeeded in mobilising governments, civil society and public opinion to secure the ICJ process and demonstrated how youth-led diplomacy and advocacy can shape international jurisprudence to catalyse global climate action.

The ICJ and IACtHR Opinions now provide young people worldwide—particularly in Africa and the Global South—with legal precedents to advance litigation, advocacy and political action. These Opinions give legitimacy to calls for accountability, reinforce intergenerational justice, and enable youth to push for stronger legal recognition of ecocide at all levels.

The Opinions also intersect with initiatives such as the campaign to recognise ecocide as the fifth international crime under the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC). Recent developments at COP30 and within European institutions—including the Council of Europe's work on ecocide regulation and progress on the EU Ecocide Directive—further demonstrate the growing momentum for legal recognition of severe environmental harm.

Speakers:

Paola Vitale
Y4EL Core Team

Carola Brand
Y4EL Core Team and WY4CJ EU Front Campaigner

Alexandre Chao Viso
Y4EL Core Team and WY4CJ Campaigner

Thomas Csillag Finger
SESA Latin America ambassador

Léa Weimann
Co-lead Y4EL

Niccolo’ Delporto
Moderator, Y4EL Core Team

Wednesday December 3rd, 15:30 GMT / 10:30 EST

Ecocide, defined as the large-scale destruction of ecosystems, is being considered as a potential international crime. This session brings together experts from Stop Ecocide International, Ecocide Law Alliance, Global Witness, and World-Check Research to examine how environmental harm intersects with financial crime, conflict, and compliance.

We will review the proposed legal definition of ecocide, assess its global momentum, and discuss how financial institutions, investigative journalism, and civil society can collaborate to address environmental risks. Through case studies, the panel will explore practical approaches and the role of risk and compliance in shaping responses.

The discussion will also consider how data providers, legislation, finance, and advocacy efforts are converging to support effective governance and accountability.

Agenda

• Welcome & Opening Remarks
• Panel Introductions
• Guided Discussion
• Audience Q&A
• Closing Remarks

As climate impacts accelerate, our legal systems struggle to keep pace with the scale of harm being inflicted on people and the planet. Recognising ecocide — mass damage and destruction of ecosystems — as a serious crime offers a powerful new pathway for justice and accountability and is rapidly gaining global momentum. This talk will explore how ecocide law can help close legal gaps, curb corporate impunity, and protect communities most affected by environmental breakdown; and why naming and outlawing ecocide could shift the way governments and businesses make decisions that affect the Earth’s future. Drawing on recent legislative progress and international cross-sector discussions, the session will outline practical strategies for making ecocide law a reality and catalysing a cultural shift: a call to place care for the living world at the heart of how we govern.

ONLINE: Tuesday 4th November, 12pm GMT

Engaging with ecocide law isn’t just about avoiding liability — it’s about redefining the relationship between law, business, and the environment.

Our panel will explore how ecocide law fits within the current legal framework and examine its implications for law firms and their clients. The discussion will also consider the relationship between ecocide law and the rights of nature movement, highlighting how these evolving legal approaches intersect to shape the future of environmental accountability and protection.

Speakers:
Sue Miller - Chief Network and Alliances Officer,
Sophie Dembinski - Head of Global Public Policy; Head of UK & Americas, Ecosia
Nina Macpherson - Chair of the Board, Ecocide Law Alliance Foundation, Former Chief Legal Officer of Ericsson

This event is part of the ‘Rule of Law, Role of Lawyers’ series, exploring how legal professionals uphold justice, safeguard democratic principles, and address emerging global challenges.

Friday 31st October, 9:30 am to 5:00 pm

Online and at The Chancellor's Hall,
First Floor, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU

This one-day hybrid conference will convene scholars, activists, diplomats, and lawmakers from across the globe for a dialogue on the intersection of international law, human rights, and ecological justice.

The daytime programme will feature presentations by the authors of selected papers from the forthcoming Special Issue of the International Journal on Human Rights dedicated to Ecocide, Human Rights and Environmental Justice. A strong emphasis will be placed on voices from the global majority, ensuring that diverse perspectives are brought to the forefront of this critical debate. 

In the evening, the focus will broaden beyond academia. Campaigners, activists, lawmakers, and representatives of states at the forefront of the ecocide campaign will share reflections and experiences on the path towards ecological justice.

This conference is proudly co-organized by UCLA Law The Promise Institute Europe and the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, School of Advanced Study.

Programme

🔹 Conference – 9:30am – 5pm
🔹 Evening Event – 5pm – 7:30pm

29th October, 3PM EAT

Sue Miller, Chief Networks & Alliances Officer, Stop Ecocide International

Reagan Elijah, Uganda Diplomatic Liaison, Stop Ecocide International

📅 Wednesday 29th October ⏰ 13:00 GMT

This session will dive into recent developments and challenges in mining regulation and international law, as well as the benefits and shortfalls of 'land use governance' and the ways in which human rights and community development require protection in the mining sector.

Jojo Mehta will join Dr Rebecca Clube as this session's Guest Speakers and Gretel Cuevas will moderate.

Thursday October 23rd, 13:30 EAT,

Sir Dawda Kairaba Jawara International Conference Centre, Bijilo, Gambia

Africa is grappling with grave environmental crises of various scales and dimensions. The crises involve, among others, disproportionate and severe impacts from climate change, desertification and loss of biodiversity. Furthermore, widespread pollution and despoilation are stemming from development activities, particularly those linked to transnational companies and extractive industries. Studies have shown that the operations of large companies, particularly in the extractives sector, have huge potential for environmental impact. The ACHPR also established this in its jurisprudence.

The ACHPR is convening this panel to leverage this 85th Session and foster a critical dialogue to ensure environmental justice is central to Africa’s development agenda through the following objectives:

•To highlight the gravity and scale of the environmental crises on the continent, paying particular attention to the essence of Resolution 633 of 2025;

•Discuss case studies that illustrate environmentally related human rights violations being experienced due to the environmental crisis through the lens of Environmental Human Rights Defenders (EHRDs).

•Discuss the potential for the concept of Ecocide to be recognised as one avenue for fighting against conditions threatening the environment in Africa, including through designating the most severe environmental violations as international crimes;

•Discuss the effective remedies against environmental harm, particularly in the context of large-scale infrastructure and extractive projects and;

•Clarify the specific obligations of State Parties, drawing on State Reporting Guidelines and principles, and ask the critical question of how to respond to the magnitude of this crises with proportionate human rights mechanisms.

Speakers:

Hon. Commissioner Solomon Ayele Dersso (Chairperson of the Working Group on Extractive Industries, Environment and Human Rights Violations, African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights).

Hon. Ernest Yaw Anim, Chairman of the Human Rights Committee of the Parliament of Ghana

Ms. Fiona Iliff, Human Rights Lawyer and Environmental Expert, American Bar Association

Mr Voke Ighorodje, Expert and Director of International Justice Program, Right Education Empowerment & Development Centre for Social Change (REED Centre).

Hosted by: African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights Working Group on Extractive Industries, Environment and Human Rights Violations.

Saturday 18th October, 13:00
Sir Dawda Kairaba Jawara International Conference Centre
in Bijilo, The Gambia

Hannah Forster (Chair), Executive Director (ACDHRS)

Voke Ighorodje (Moderator), Founding Executive Director, The REED Center for Social Change, Nigeria

10/14/2025, 10:00 - 12:00

Entrada libre hasta completar aforo.

En el próximo Plenario nº12 de la Comisión Permanente de la Amazonia y los Pueblos Originarios y Tradicionales (CPOVOS) del Congreso de los Diputados de Brasil, tendrá lugar una Audiencia Pública para debatir la inclusión del ecocidio en el ordenamiento jurídico brasileño como crimen de destrucción masiva de la naturaleza, bajo el Proyecto de Ley 2933/2023.

Dicha Audiencia ha sido posible gracias al apoyo de la Diputada Federal por el PSOL Célia Xakriabá y de ECOE Brasil.

Sunday October 12th, 13:00 - 14:00
Nature Positive Pavilion
IUCN World Conservation Congress

A conversation between Stop Ecocide International’s CEO, Jojo Mehta, and other experts about the transformational protective potential of an international ecocide law and an opportunity to ask questions about both ecocide law and motion 061.

06/10/2025, 10:30

Auditório Arcadas - Faculdade de Direito do Largo São Francisco

TAMBÉM COM TRANSMISSÃO AO VIVO

JOJO MEHTA, Cofundadora e Diretora-Geral da Stop Ecocide, liderando o movimento global para tipificar o ecocídio como crime internacional.

RODRIGO LLEDÓ, Diretor para as Américas da Stop Ecocide International e Vice-Presidente da Direitos Humanos Sem Fronteiras.

ISABEL PINHEIRO, Doutoranda em Direito pela Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC). Coordenadora da Stop Ecocide Américas (Brasil).

MEDIAÇÃO: Professor Associado Guilherme Assis de Almeida

10/1/2025, De 18:00 a 20:30 hs (hora Perú)

Colegio de Abogados de Lima –
Auditorio Principal 'José Baquijano y Carrillo, Av. Santa Cruz nº255, Miraflores (Lima)

¿Puede la destrucción ambiental convertirse en un crimen internacional?

Este evento busca abrir el debate académico y jurídico sobre el ecocidio, en un momento en que el Perú discute un proyecto de ley que podría ser incorporado a su legislación nacional.

Este conversatorio de alto nivel jurídico político se realiza como evento paralelo al Foro de Ministros de Ambiente de América Latina y el Caribe (PNUMA), que tendrá lugar en Lima. Busca posicionar el debate sobre el ecocidio como crimen internacional y nacional, elevando su urgencia en la agenda jurídica, política y ambiental.

En este espacio, se abordará la crisis ambiental con una mirada integral: desde los límites planetarios que ya estamos superando, hasta los desafíos legales para transformar la protección del medio ambiente en una verdadera garantía jurídica.

También se hablará sobre los orígenes y avances globales del concepto de ecocidio, y sobre cómo este podría ser tipificado en el Perú para responder a los crecientes daños ecológicos que amenazan la vida y la dignidad humana.

El evento contará con grandes expertos nacionales e internacionales, en un diálogo moderado por Perú Sin Ecocidio.

Tipificar el ecocidio como crimen implica reconocer que la destrucción masiva del medio ambiente no puede seguir siendo tolerada. Es un avance legislativo esencial para proteger nuestro hogar común —la Tierra— y salvaguardar los derechos de las generaciones futuras.

El evento está dirigido a expertos, miembros de la administración, docentes, investigadores y todas las personas interesadas en derecho, justicia ambiental y sostenibilidad.

🌱 What is it?

A collective, decentralized artistic action across Latin America and Africa to raise awareness about the proposal to recognize ecocide as an international crime.

🌍 Inspiration

Inspired by mycelium, the underground network of fungi that sustains life in forests. A metaphor for silent cooperation, regeneration and human connection.

🎭 What can you do?

Create a small artistic action with low environmental impact and strong symbolic value:

• Music / singing

• Dance / performance

• Theater

• Painting / mural

• Poetry / collage / photography

• Sculpture / exhibition

• Or hybrid/combined formats

It doesn’t need to be big — just real and meaningful.

🧩 Participation guidelines

✔ Open and free to the public

✔ Preferably in a public space

✔ Linked to Earth protection and ecocide awareness

✔ Includes reference to Stop Ecocide

✔ Documented with photos or videos

✔ Environmentally conscious (low or zero waste)

💌 How to join?

Send an email to: constanza@stopecocidio.org

Include your proposal (discipline, participants, location, date and social media links).

09/25/2025, desde las 18.00 horas.

Entrada libre hasta completar aforo.

En un momento decisivo para el futuro ambiental y jurídico de Panamá, la Facultad de Derecho y Ciencias Políticas de la Universidad de Panamá será sede de este encuentro dedicado a reflexionar sobre el ecocidio y la justicia ambiental.

Este evento reunirá a destacadas figuras académicas y defensores ambientales para abordar, desde una perspectiva multidisciplinaria, uno de los debates más urgentes de nuestro tiempo: la necesidad de reconocer y tipificar el ecocidio como crimen internacional, articulando el derecho penal, el derecho internacional y la defensa de los derechos humanos frente a la crisis climática.

La cita cobra especial relevancia en el contexto nacional e internacional. A nivel nacional, el contrato minero con Minera Panamá —subsidiaria de First Quantum Minerals (Canadá) y operadora de la mina Cobre Panamá— ha estado en el centro de una intensa controversia social, jurídica, política y ambiental. Las masivas protestas ciudadanas y la histórica decisión de la Corte Suprema de Justicia de declarar inconstitucional el contrato minero han marcado un precedente en la defensa del medioambiente y la soberanía nacional, evidenciando la tensión entre los intereses extractivos y los derechos de las comunidades.

A nivel internacional, el evento también dialoga con dos pronunciamientos jurídicos sin precedentes: la Opinión Consultiva de la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos y la Opinión Consultiva de la Corte Internacional de Justicia, ambas reconociendo la interdependencia entre derechos humanos y protección ambiental, así como la urgencia de enfrentar la crisis climática desde un marco de justicia internacional.

En este marco, el encuentro en la Universidad de Panamá no solo busca compartir saberes y experiencias, sino también generar propuestas que contribuyan a un cambio real en la defensa de la Tierra.

25th September, 07.00 BST

Motion 61 “Recognising the Crime of Ecocide to Protect Nature” will go to a vote at the the IUCN Congress which runs between the 9th -15th October

Ecocide refers the most harmful acts of environmental damage and ecocide law would be a legally enforceable deterrent to protect nature from the most significant environmental damage, carrying significant penalties.

Join this webinar hosted by Australian Earth Laws Alliance/Stop Ecocide Australia and Stop Ecocide Aotearoa New Zealand to learn about this motion and the rapidly growing movement to create an international ecocide law. Hear from Sue Miller, Chief Networks and Alliances Officer of Stop Ecocide International who are sponsoring this motion, as well as speakers across the Asia Pacific region about their work and how ecocide law will benefit their work to protect nature.

Moderated by: Dr Michelle Maloney co-founder and Director (Australian Earth Laws Alliance/Stop Ecocide Australia)

Co-hosted/organized by: SEI/Australian Earth Laws Alliance /SE Australia Aotearoa - NZ

Speakers:

Sue Miller - Head of Global Networks, Stop Ecocide International

Lyndon De Vantier - Coral Ecologist and Co-Lead, Stop Ecocide Aotearoa New Zealand

Kazi Amdadul Hoque - Senior Director of Strategic Planning and Head of Climate Action , Friendship Bangladesh

Alanna Matamaru Smith - Director, Te Ipukarea Society (Cook Islands)

09/24/2025

Comienzo a las 16h. Duración 90 minutos.

Ciudad Universitaria UNAM, Torre II de Humanidades - 3er piso, Auditorio Leopoldo Zea. Ciudad de México.

Entrada libre hasta completar aforo.

Transmisión en directo en Facebook y canal de Youtube: @‌cialc-unam5257

Más información: http://www.cialc.unam.mx/

El debate profundo y pausado sobre la definición y sobre los progresos que se están realizando en el mundo, y en especial en América Latina para tipificar el crimen de ecocidio, es el objetivo de este seminario internacional. Un espacio para el debate académico y jurídico sobre uno de los temas más urgentes de nuestro tiempo: la protección legal, a nivel penal, de nuestro maravilloso y único hogar común, el planeta Tierra.

Con la participación de expertos de América Latina y miembros de Stop Ecocidio Internacional, este conversatorio expondrá opiniones relevantes acerca de los proyectos de ley sobre el ecocidio en curso en América Latina, reflexionará sobre cómo enfrentar crímenes ambientales desde el derecho y cuál es el papel de las movilizaciones sociales en la denuncia del ecocidio en la región.

La Naturaleza necesita justicia y el Derecho Internacional puede y debe proporcionársela.

Wednesday, 24 September 2025, 15:00 - 16:00 EAT

The Second Africa Climate Summit (ACS2) reaffirmed Africa’s commitment to “accelerate climate action across the continent, mobilize adaptation finance and shape the global climate agenda from an African perspective.” Following the inaugural Africa Youth Climate Assembly and the first ACS in Nairobi, Kenya, states reconvened in Addis Ababa in 2025 to consolidate continental priorities, assess progress, and strengthen Africa’s collective voice in global climate negotiations.

The urgency of climate action in Africa cannot be overstated. The continent faces intensifying droughts, floods, food insecurity and biodiversity loss, with severe consequences for livelihoods and stability. African youth are disproportionately affected, bearing the brunt of these crises while having the least resources to adapt. Their leadership is therefore indispensable in shaping just and effective responses.

Globally, ecocide is gaining traction as a legal norm. In 2024, Small Island Developing States filed a proposal to amend the Rome Statute to include ecocide as an international crime, and countries such as the Democratic Republic of the Congo have publicly endorsed this initiative. Across Africa, youth-led networks are driving grassroots campaigns, strengthening advocacy capacity and coordinating efforts to enshrine ecocide in law at national, regional and international levels.

Africa’s youth occupy a strategic moment: they can translate ACS2 outcomes into tangible progress for legal protections, bring ecocide into national agendas and shape Africa’s position ahead of COP30. This event is African youth-led and youth-focused, designed to equip emerging leaders with insight, strategy and collaboration to advance ecocide law.

Speakers:

Debbie Buyaki

Counsel Louis Ninisima

Mwaka Namukonda

Moderated by: Jubile Kasay