With legal and environmental experts pushing to criminalize the destruction of the environment, “ecocide” could have major consequences for both government and business. How could a new legal definition transform climate action?
Video by World Economic Forum, 22/09/2021
Few believe that just one person can change the world but if anyone came close, it was Polly Higgins.
By Alice Hinds for The Sunday Post, 20/09/2021
Maite Mompó, reconocida activista ambiental española, describe el arduo proceso que busca incluir la destrucción masiva de la naturaleza como delito internacional. 14/09/2021
As proliferating disasters starkly demonstrate, severe damage to the environment is a crime against everyone. Rather than leave it to regulation by individual states, the International Criminal Court should recognize “ecocide” as an international crime.
By Kate Mackintosh, Jojo Mehta, Richard Rogers for Project Syndicate, 31/08/2021
Doce abogados trabajan para que los criminales del planeta sean procesados por ecocidio ante la Corte Penal Internacional. 31/08/2021
En junio se presentó el resultado del trabajo de otro grupo de expertos internacionales. Su objetivo es tipificar un nuevo delito contra la humanidad: el ecocidio. 29/08/2021
Could Scotland be the first country to adopt new Ecocide definition for crimes against the planet?
By John Ferguson for The Daily Record, 15/08/2021
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