El diputado Raúl Soto (PPD), presentó un proyecto de ley llamado “ECOCIDIO” que busca modificar el Código Penal y castigar con cárcel al autor, cómplice o encubridor de daños graves al medio ambiente. 11/08/2021
New IPCC report details rapid acceleration of climate symptoms. It’s time to address the root causes: make ecocide an international crime.
AR6 Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis, by the IPCC
Intentionally harming the planet could be discussed in the same international court that tries war crimes.
by Angely Mercado for Popular Science, 31/07/2021
The story of the struggle to have ecocide recognized as a crime against humanity.
by Giuseppe Luca Scaffidi for Rolling Stone Italia, 30/07/2021
In part one of this post, I mapped out the main controversies and choices to be made in defining ecocide. I now introduce the most difficult conundrum: how to align ecocide with environmental law
By Darryl Robinson for OpinioJuris, 16/07/2021
For over a year, I have been involved in research and discussions on the fascinatingly difficult issues in defining ecocide, as part of a UCLA Promise Institute project.
By Darryl Robinson for OpinioJuris, 16/07/2021
Last month, a panel of international lawyers chaired by Philippe Sands and Dior Fall Sow launched our proposal for a new crime of ‘ecocide’ – an international crime of environmental destruction that would sit alongside genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes and the crime of aggression at the International Criminal Court.
by Kate Mackintosh for LegalPlanet, 13/07/2021
El Congreso de los Diputados de Chile pide al gobierno, por una amplia mayoría, que apoye la definición legal del ecocidio y la propuesta de enmienda al Estatuto de Roma. 13/07/2021
“When we were first able to view, and photograph, the Earth from space, our planetary perspective changed. Suddenly “home” had a whole new meaning. Nowhere, as far as our technology has been able to discern, is there evidence of any planet like Earth — anywhere else that can sustain life as we know it.”
by Jojo Mehta for Common Dreams, 11/07/2021
“… perhaps the most powerful effect of defining and criminalizing ecocide as an international crime may be that of beginning to shift cultural and moral assumptions. Our understanding of our place in, and responsibility towards, the natural world is in dire need of a reality check.”
by Jojo Mehta for The Hill, 10/07/2021
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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