“After the Nuremberg trials, you had a neologism to describe the horrors of the second world war, which was genocide. Now there is another neologism, ecocide. [...] Stop Ecocide is the movement trying to make ecocide an international crime.”

By Simon McBurney for The Guardian, 29/06/2024

The #EU passes "landmark law to protect nature after a knife-edge vote"!

While a massively encouraging step forward, restoration targets must be complemented by #ecocidelaw to prevent major environmental destruction.

By Ajit Niranjan for The Guardian, 17/06/2024

“Only, specifies Esmeralda, the recognition of ecocide as an international crime will make it possible to deter, but also to prevent and punish the "most serious damage committed against nature and the climate, to strengthen existing legislation, including multilateral environmental agreements. It is about protecting nature through criminal law, and also creating a moral imperative that can act as a shield for the living world”."

By Emmanuelle Jowa for Paris Match, 15/06/2024

“The Escazú Agreement complements [ecocide] law by providing environmental defenders with the tools needed to advocate for the protection of their rights and the environment. Together, these mechanisms contribute to a legal framework that protects the environment, and its defenders, and draws a moral red line beyond which actions that damage the planet are deemed unacceptable.”

By Rodrigo Lledó for openDemocracy, 21/05/2024

“We, representatives of thirteen Swedish companies and organisations, call on the government to actively work for the introduction of an international ecocide law that protects valuable nature and contributes to fair rules of the game on the world market.”

By Dan-Eric Archer, Jorgën Eriksson, Johanna Lakso, Martin Forsén and Robert Szöcs for AktuellHållbarhet, 15/05/2024

“As the movement to criminalize ecocide gathers momentum, Jojo [Mehta] stands at the forefront. Her unwavering leadership serves as a beacon of hope for a world where humanity and the environment can co-exist in harmony.”

By Institute of Natural Law, 07/05/2024

“Companies cannot be given a license to spill and kill, provided they clear up the mess”. These were my closing remarks when I led the prosecution in the world’s first mock ecocide trial in 2011.

By Michael Mansfield KC for The Times, 02/05/2024

Ecocidios, los crímenes contra la naturaleza que dejan daños irreversibles al medioambiente. En nuestro país este tipo de actos se han visto en reiteradas ocasiones, aunque no siempre se castiga a los responsables del daño a los ecosistemas nacionales. 24/5/2024

Jojo Mehta, chief executive of the Stop Ecocide International campaign, said she believes ecocide law could cover the worst kind of harm to Britain’s rivers, should sewage or agricultural pollution be shown to have caused “severe and either widespread or long-term damage”."

By Adam Forrest for i News, 20/04/2024

“A new report commissioned by the Environmental Rights Centre for Scotland (ERCS) considers how the unprecedented support for criminalising ecocide can translate into a ‘workable domestic offence’ in Scotland that can hold polluters to account.”

By The Canary, 19/04/2024

Declaraciones de Maite Mompó sobre el ecocidio en la nueva Directiva Europea de Delitos ambientales, en referencia a los datos recopilados por distintas instituciones, que apuntan que el 93% de los casos contra especies protegidas en España no llegan a ser juzgados.  07/04/2024

“The Nordic Waste scandal has unfortunately demonstrated that Danish environmental legislation does not work. Denmark should introduce more ambitious legislation by criminalizing ecocide in order to prevent future environmental disasters.”

By Bart Bes and Lars Olesen for Politiken, 26/03/2024

“Vanuatu and Ukraine are united in their calls for a law which applies to all such environmental damage, wherever and whenever it occurs. 

This deters polluters from causing destruction in the first place and ensures that those who do can be brought to justice.”

By Maksym Popov and Ambassador Odo Tevi for Euronews, 26/03/2024

“The international criminal court (ICC) has been urged to start investigating and prosecuting individuals who harm the environment.”

By Isabella Kaminski for The Guardian, 26/03/2024

“Groundbreaking ecocide laws which will see reckless company bosses jailed for environmental destruction have been backed by the Scottish Government.”

By John Ferguson for Daily Record, 25/03/2024

“Jojo Mehta spoke to Anna Ackermann, a policy analyst at the International Institute for Sustainable Development, about the cultural contexts of adding the fifth international crime to the Rome Statute, the impact of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine on the legal discourse around ecocide, and the significance of the destruction of the Kakhovka Dam.”

By Anna Ackermann for London Ukrainian Review, 04/03/2024

“The historic vote from the EU to include ecocide-level crimes in its revised crime directive shows leadership and compassion, and will strongly reinforce existing environmental laws across the region,’ said Jojo Mehta, Co-Founder and CEO of Stop Ecocide International. ‘It will establish a clear moral as well as legal “red line”, creating an essential steer for European industry leaders and policy-makers going forward.”

By Martin Guttridge-Hewitt for Environment Journal, 28/02/2024

“The European Union has become the first international body to criminalise the most serious cases of environmental damage that are “comparable to ecocide”.

Ecosystem destruction, including habitat loss and illegal logging, will be punished with tougher penalties and prison sentences under the EU’s updated environmental crime directive.”

By Mette Mølgaard Henriksen for Euronews, 27/02/2024

“With prominent voices like that of Belgium leading the way, tangible progress is being made internationally, particularly so in Europe following last November’s agreement to include ecocide-level crimes in the EU’s revised environmental crimes directive. I have no doubt we will see international recognition of the crime of ecocide in the near future.” - Jojo Mehta

By Maïthé Chini for The Brussels Times, 23/02/2024

“A new crime of ecocide, a preventative and all-encompassing framework, can rectify an existing taboo in international environmental regulation: the most serious destructions of nature are morally reprehensible and thus criminally liable acts. Ecocide law therefore holds significant potential to usher in a new era of environmental governance that can ensure exacting protection for nature, on Earth and in outer space.”

By Anna Madrick for Eco-nnect, 11/02/2024