Entrevista a Miguel Ángel Asturias, miembro de Argentina sin ecocidio, autor de una Propuesta de Ley del delito de ecocidio para Argentina, y miembro de la red de juristas por la Ley del Ecocidio. ¨La idea es que los países también hagan propuestas para modificar su legislación interna. En Argentina buscamos que se pueda incorporar al Código Penal”. 30/08/2024

“A powerful deterrent is needed, a way to prevent the controlling minds in organisations — who are often driven by the prospect of short-term financial gain or power — from making decisions that result in significant environmental harm..”

Monica Lennon and Judith Schwartz for Mongabay, 19/08/24

Vanuatu’s Permanent Representative to the UN, Odo Tevi, has called on the International Criminal Court (ICC) to include ecocide as a fifth international crime under the Rome Statute.

By Pita Ligaiula for Pina, 31/07/2024

“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