“To protect nature is to protect ourselves. Make ecocide a crime in international law.”
“Large-scale environmental degradation is a global problem. To deal with it, an international law with global scope is required, write eight experts”
Göran Finnveden, Björn-Ola Linnér,
Kevin Noone, Garry Peterson, Alasdair Skelton, Peter Stenvinkel
Karin Gerhardt, and Glenn Bark for Sydsvenskan, 13/09/24
“Time for the government to stand up against serious environmental destruction”
“We, representatives of thirteen Swedish companies and organisations, call on the government to actively work for the introduction of an international ecocide law that protects valuable nature and contributes to fair rules of the game on the world market.”
By Dan-Eric Archer, Jorgën Eriksson, Johanna Lakso, Martin Forsén and Robert Szöcs for AktuellHållbarhet, 15/05/2024
“More than fifty years have passed since the world began discussing the criminalization of large-scale environmental degradation, ecocide. In recent years, the issue has taken off in earnest, with several countries advocating an update of the law. But in Sweden, the government does not want to raise the issue - despite the upcoming UN meeting in Stockholm.”
By Jenny Stiernstedt for Dagens Industri, 01/06/2022
"More and more voices are being raised for the International Criminal Court to include ecocide - large-scale environmental degradation - among international crimes. An expert committee of lawyers has now worked out a proposal for a definition of the term.”
By Sverker Lenas for Dagens Nyheter, 31/05/2022
“Now it’s time to highlight ecocide for real. If the Swedish government don’t take this opportunity to raise the issue now, when the stage is set and Sweden is hosting the conference which will draw attention to the Stockholm Conference where the question was first lifted 50 years ago, then I do not understand when they will take it. ”
Dagens Nyheter, 29/05/2022
“The creation of an international ecocidal crime under the ICC Charter would mean that individuals could be held liable - at international level - for extreme environmental damage, in the same way that individual liability for serious violations of human rights was created by previous international criminal law.”
By Tomas Nordberg for Global Bar Magazine, 17/05/2022