IN CONVERSATION

 

Stop Ecocide International organised a one to one deep dive ‘in conversation’ between journalist Katie Surma, InsideClimate News and President Tarja Halonen, Former President of Finland.

 

A one to one deep dive ‘in conversation’ between journalist Katie Surma, InsideClimate News and Patricia Gualinga, indigenous rights defender of the Pueblo Kichwa de Sarayaku (Kichwa People of Sarayaku), an indigenous community in the Ecuadorian Amazon.

A one to one deep dive ‘in conversation’ between journalist Katie Surma, InsideClimate News and founder of Planète Amazone, Gert-Peter Bruch.

Jojo Mehta, Co-founder of Stop Ecocide International in conversation with Patrick Alley, Co-founder of Global Witness on exposing the links between corrupt practices, economic greed and environmental destruction, and how an international law of ecocide could help untangle that mess...

Jojo Mehta, co founder of the Stop Ecocide Campaign in conversation with Paul Powlesland: Founder, Lawyers for Nature. Taking peaceful direct action to defend nature is criminalised, while corporations are permitted to destroy entire ecosystems and exacerbate climate change. This is the wrong way round.

Jojo Mehta, co-founder of Stop Ecocide International in conversation with young activists Anton Foley and Andreas Magnusson of the Fridays For Future movement in Stockholm - on how it is to speak out on the climate crisis, who's listening and who's not, what #ecocide law can do.

Valérie Cabanes - activist, legal expert and key voice for ecocide law across the French-speaking world - explains the importance of President Macron's recent declaration of support for ecocide as an international crime. Learn how this has happened, about Valérie's central role in bringing it to the attention of government and about the fundamental importance of citizen engagement. Also how Polly Higgins inspired her at key points along the way!

Jojo Mehta in conversation with renowned veteran environmentalist and author Jonathon Porritt (whose new book Hope in Hell comes out this month) on World Environment Day 2020. From criminal law to state policy to everyday action, this is a frank yet fundamentally optimistic dialogue on the rules we must change to address - and transform - the world we face.