In person panel event at COP27
Time: 13:30 EET
Venue: Bangladesh Pavilion
Hosted by Bangladesh Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change
in association with Stop Ecocide Foundation
We are witnessing a rising frustration globally with the failure to effectively implement multilateral climate and environmental agreements and pledges. Meanwhile, pollution and loss of nature are pushing vital ecosystems into collapse and climate vulnerable nations suffer immediate and existential threat.
Could this be because we have not yet put a preventive legal framework in place?
Recognizing ecocide - severe and either widespread or long-term harm to nature - as a crime would address a fundamental root cause of climate and ecological crisis. It could provide a legal guardrail to deter, prevent and sanction the worst threats to vital carbon sinks, ecosystems and keystone species, while strengthening existing laws and creating the necessary parameters for effective climate action.
Bangladesh is an active participant in this growing global conversation, along with other climate-vulnerable states. Join us to find out more.
Speakers:
Chair, Stop Ecocide Foundation, Convenor of the Expert panel for the legal definition of ecocide.
Environmental justice advocate, Director of the Health of Mother Earth Foundation.
Director, Bangladesh Environmental Lawyers Association.
Moderator:
Chair of the Environment & Forests Parliamentary Standing Committee, Bangladesh.