“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
!["[Stop Ecocide] wants more than just recognition of ecocide as a concept, it sees it as a tool to hold to account those most responsible for disastrous decisions." By Andrés Ingi Jónsson for VISIR , 16/05/2022
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“La duda no es si el ecocidio va a llegar a convertirse en un delito de la Corte Penal Internacional, sino cuándo va a llegar”. Maite Mompó en un artículo escrito por Raúl Rejón. 13/05/2022
"Ecocide law is no longer just a wild idea. Discussions are ongoing in several ICC member states, and Finland's Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto is in favour of continuing them.”
By Petja Pelli for Helsingin Sanomat, 10/05/2022
Throughout the years, human activities have harmed ecological resources in the name of “development.” Ecological deterioration was long observed as a mere side effect of progressing in other walks of life.
By Bas Fransen for Ecomatcher, 02/05/2022
Members of the political groups in the European Parliament welcomed on Wednesday the decision to start interinstitutional negotiations on the revision of the EU directive on environmental crimes with a mandate to include ecocide in the new legislation.
M. Apelblat for The Brussels Times, 02/04/2023
The campaign to introduce a new international crime of “ecocide” at the International Criminal Court (ICC) is long-standing but has received increased support over the last couple of years.
By Rachel Killean for IPI Global Observatory, 30/03/2022
The latest IPCC report provides a chilling read on the health of the planet, says Kate Mackintosh. She explains why the crime of “ecocide” should become the fifth crime to be prosecuted at the International Criminal Court, alongside genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity and aggression.
By Kate Mackintosh for Bloomberg Law, 18/03/2022
What we can do is a series drawing inspiration from the change-makers of our time. What are they doing to help our planet? What were their first steps? What gives them hope? Climate action is needed. Here’s what we can do.
By Ceri for Ecosia Blog, 17/03/2022
In what is thought to be a first-of-its-kind action, the lawsuit brought by activist shareholders claims that Shell’s 13 directors are personally liable for failing to devise a strategy in line with the Paris agreement, which aims to limit global heating to below 2C by slashing fossil fuel emissions.
By Damien Gayle for The Guardian, 15/03/2022
High-ranking politicians and corporate bosses who are guilty of massive destruction of nature should be able to be accused of ecocide in The Hague - Rizwana Hasan and Jojo Mehta are fighting for this.
By Anya Rider for Greenpeace Magazin (in German), 11/03/2022
The conflict reveals the limits of state accountability for environmental harm in war.
By Rachel Killean for Conflict and Environment Observatory, 07/03/2022
…after days of gruelling round-the-clock talks, UN member states finally agreed on a treaty to protect the high seas.
A full day after the deadline for talks had officially passed, the conference president, Rena Lee of Singapore, took to the floor of room 2 of the UN headquarters in New York and announced that the treaty had been agreed. At a later date, the delegates will meet for half a day to formally adopt the text. She made it clear the text would not be reopened.
Karen McVeigh for The Guardian, 05/03/2023
Gustavo Gómez, abogado especialista en derecho ambiental y Fiscal General ante la Cámara Federal de Tucumán, Catamarca y Santiago del Estero: “Necesitamos una figura penal para castigar los ecocidios”. 27/02/2022
Toxic smoke, contaminated rivers, poisoned soil, trees reduced to charred stumps, nature reserves pocked with craters: the environmental toll from Russia’s war with Ukraine, which has been detailed in a new map, might once have been considered incalculable. The environment ministry has set up a hotline for citizens to report cases of Russian “ecocide”, which so far number 2,303, and issues weekly updates of the tally.
Jonathan Watts for The Guardian, 20/02/2023
