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The global conversation around it [ecocide] - and in particular the conversation around criminalising it - is growing fast.
by Jojo Mehta for The Independent, 07/07/202
La destrucción de los ecosistemas y los hábitats o la contaminación de recursos como el agua podrían dejar de salir gratuitos, como hasta ahora, a las empresas causantes de delitos ambientales, tras la definición de 'ecocidio' por parte de un grupo de expertos internacionales y su probable inclusión como delito universal. 6/07/2021
A panel of criminal and environmental lawyers from around the world has created a legal definition for ‘ecocide’ as the basis of a push to criminalize mass damage and destruction of ecosystems.
by Sean Fleming for World Economic Forum, 01/07/2021
Crime of ecocide could transform fight against climate change.
by Pilita Clark for Financial Times, 25/06/2021
Some environmental lawyers want to make destruction of an ecosystem an international crime -- “ecocide” -- on par with genocide or war crimes.
Bloomberg Green, 25/06/2021
From oil spills to open-pit mining, clear-cut logging to heavy-net trawling, humans continue to scar the planet despite mountains of legislation, regulation and good intent.
by Ryan Hesketh for Bloomberg Green, 25/06/2021
This week, legal experts defined and put forward a new proposed category of international crime - ‘ecocide.’ If taken up by Parties to the International Criminal Court (ICC), it would become the fifth category of offences to be prosecuted under the court, alongside war crimes, crimes against humanity, genocide, and the crime of aggression.
United Nations Environment Programme, 24/06/2021
An expert panel brought together by the Stop Ecocide Foundation proposed this week to amend the statutes of the International Criminal Court and include ecocide alongside other international crimes such as war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide.
by M. Apelblat for The Brussels Times, 24/06/2021
Legal experts from across the globe have drawn up a “historic” definition of ecocide, intended to be adopted by the International Criminal Court to prosecute the most egregious offences against the environment.
By Haroon Siddique for The National Observer, 23/06/2021
Here is ecocide, the new possibly global crime.
by Graham Lawton, for La Repubblica, 23/06/2021
The initial goal is to define ‘ecocide’, and while any formal recognition of the term as a crime in international law could be years away, Dr Rachel Killean, from the School of Law at Queen’s, has based a lot of her research on the merits of changing international law to see ecocide established alongside war crimes, genocide and crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Court (ICC).
by Mark Bain for Belfast Telegraph, 23/06/2021
Supporters now hope the 165-word definition will go before the International Criminal court’s member nations for ratification, which could take years.
By Katie Surma and Yuliya Talmazan for Inside Climate News, 22/06/2021
Will there soon be an Ecocide provision at the ICC for Murdering the Planet?
by Susanne Götze for Der Spiegel, 22/06/2021
A panel of international lawyers on Tuesday published an official legal definition of the term "ecocide," which for decades has been condemned by conservationists and climate action campaigners but which until now has not been recognized as a crime.
by Julia Conley for Common Dreams, 22/06/2021
Approving the right definition could pave the way for acts of environmental destruction to be prosecuted and condemned by the International Criminal Court, under the same consideration as war crimes, crimes against humanity, genocides and aggression.
by Julie Gaubert for Euro News, 22/06/2021