While damaging the environment is already an offence in most countries, recognition of ecocide elevates the most egregious cases to a crime – with accompanying penalties. A growing number of countries are considering introducing laws to make ecocide a crime.
By Isabella Kaminski for The Guardian, 26/08/2023
La Federación de Empresarias y Profesionales de España BPW Spain aprueba la propuesta de la Asociación en Canarias y lanza la iniciativa #FrenaElEcocidio y solicita que se reforme el Código Penal español y se introduzca el delito de ecocidio. Además, en esta campaña utilizan la definición propuesta por el Grupo de Expertos Independientes convocado por la Fundación Stop Ecocidio. 25/08/2023
En Ecoticias se preguntan si será el ecocidio delito en la UE ya que nos encontramos en la fase final de las negociaciones para que los delitos que tienen el nivel de ecocidio sean incluidos en la Directiva de la Unión Europea sobre la protección del medio ambiente a través del Derecho penal. 23/08/2023
“The Greens have backed calls for a new “ecocide” law in Scotland to punish people guilty of mass environmental destruction. Labour MSP Monica Lennon is spearheading efforts to get the eco law on Holyrood’s statute books amid a global push for an international ecocide crime to hold planet killers to account.”
By Dan Vevers for Daily Record, 22/08/2023
“Businesses working to deliver a more sustainable economy would benefit in more ways than one if #ecocide was recognised as a crime, writes Triodos' Hans Stegeman.
It is essential to address the underlying political, economic and cultural drivers of
biodiversity loss and the mechanisms that encourage an extractive use of resources
and a destructive relationship with nature.”
By Hans Stegeman, Triodos Bank for BusinessGreen, 21/08/2023
“Plans for a groundbreaking new "#ecocide" law in Scotland to punish those who destroy nature have been hailed by campaigners.If backed by MSPs, Scotland could become one of the first countries in the world to establish a specific crime for mass environmental damage and destruction - such as deforestation or oil spills.”
By Dan Vevers for Daily Record, 21/08/2023
“Currently, four specific acts — genocide, crimes against humanity, aggression and war crimes — are recognized as international crimes. Ukraine would like to add a fifth — ecocide.”
By Marc Santora for New York Times, 17/08/2023
En su artículo titulado “Ecocidio: en camino hacia una ley que proteja el ecosistema”, Lucía Etcheverry, entrevista a Argentina Sin Ecocidio para conocer más detalles de la campaña internacional por una Ley del Ecocidio. 13/08/2023
“Mexico has announced a new bill to criminalise ‘ecocide’ – the deliberate or negligent destruction of the natural environment – joining countries including the Netherlands, Brazil, Spain and Belgium to penalise the act.”
by Victoria Heath for Geographical, 13/08/2023
“… international criminal law sets the boundaries marking what is globally unacceptable: genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and the crime of aggression. But when considering these fundamental protections there is a huge blind spot in international law: protection for the environment.”
By Jojo Mehta, for Euronews, 09/08/2023
Dulcinea Campayo entrevista, para diferentes medios, a Maite Mompó, Directora de la campaña de Stop Ecocidio y recoge titulares como este: “El ecocidio ha de ser incluido como crimen contra la humanidad”. 30/07/2023
“Does the world need a bespoke mechanism to extract retribution for wanton and widespread crimes against the natural environment? Should ecocide be internationally recognised a crime as horrific as genocide?”
by Rashmee Roshan Lall for The New European, 29/07/2023
Maite Mompó, directora de la campaña de Stop Ecocidio, explica que la contaminación supuso el vertido (de la mina de Aznarcóllar) de seis millones de metros cúbicos de elementos "tan tóxicos como zinc, plomo y azufre y aguas contaminadas que terminaron en el río Guadiamar, que llega hasta Doñana, provocando un daño muy extenso y duradero en el tiempo, con lo cual entra en la categoría de lo que se considera un ecocidio". 28/07/2023
Las organizaciones ecologistas han mostrado su malestar y sorpresa ante el fallo de un juzgado de Sevilla que exime a la empresa Boliden de pagar los casi 90 millones de euros que le reclamaba la Junta de Andalucía para las labores de limpieza de los casi seis millones de metros cúbicos de vertidos tóxicos de la mina de Aznalcóllar (Sevilla). 28/07/2023
“These are ever more urgent reminders that if we don’t bring emissions down to net zero, these extremes will continue to get worse. That means heat humps and energy efficiency for our homes, electric vehicles on our roads, and more wind and solar to power it all.”
By David Vetter for Forbes, 27/07/2023
“This autumn, I will publish a public consultation on a law against ecocide in Scotland. By criminalising ecocide in Scotland, we would have the power to prosecute those who severely harm our environment.”
Monica Lennon in The Scotsman, 20/07/2023
“They say there’s no such thing as a new crime—only new laws. And that’s why activists and advocates are campaigning for crimes against nature to become a reality. They want the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague to add the crime of “ecocide” to its statute, putting massive environmental damage in the books alongside the four existing major atrocity crimes—of genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and the crime of starting an aggressive war.”
By Simone Scriven for The Delacorte Review, 18/07/2023
Plans for a new “ecocide” law that would punish those responsible for mass environmental damage in Scotland are taking a step forward. Labour MSP Monica Lennon said she is working on the proposals over the summer, with a formal consultation planned for later this year.
The Scotsman, 13/07/2023
Dr. Luigi Daniele, Senior Lecturer at Nottingham Law School, NTU discusses ecocide and climate justice with Professor Richard Falk.
Luigi Daniele for OpinioJuris, 10/07/2023
