Islas del Pacífico Presentan Propuesta Judicial para Reconocer el Ecocidio en la Corte Penal Internacional - Col Global 09/09/2024
Tres países del Pacífico proponen que el ecocidio sea delito internacional ante la CPI - Diario Libre 09/09/2024
¡Histórico! Los Estados insulares del pacífico piden formalmente que el ecocidio sea reconocido como el quinto crimen en la Corte Penal Internacional - Econews 09/09/2024
Survey: Over 70 percent of people support making ecocide a crime
“A significant majority of people in the world's largest economies agree that causing environmental damage should be a criminal offence, according to the results of a major new poll.”
Cecilia Keating for Business Green, 06/09/24
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
Ecocide law: “A powerful incentive to prioritise nature over short term gain”
“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
“Ecocide law is a powerful symbol of the fundamental importance of the natural world.”
"Ecocide law is a powerful symbol of the fundamental importance of the natural world and a recognition that we cannot exist without it."
By Sue Miller for the Journal of Biophilic Design, 08/08/2024
Vanuatu pushes ICC to recognise ecocide as international crime
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
Simon McBurney: “After the Nuremburg trials, you had genocide to describe the horrors of the Second World War. Now there is ecocide.”
“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
EU passes law to restore 20% of bloc’s land and sea by end of decade
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
Princess Esmeralda: “Only the recognition of ecocide as an international crime will prevent damage to the climate”
“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
Latin America shows why ecocide must be an international crime
“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
“Time for the government to stand up against serious environmental destruction”
“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
Ecocide: The 5th International Crime with Jojo Mehta
“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
Ecocide should be prosecuted in times of peace as well as conflict
“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
'Ecocide' law campaign could lead to jail for polluting water firm bosses
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
Should the Scottish government bring in a new ‘ecocide’ law? By the looks of it, yes.
“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
Environmental activists: Ecocide is already a war crime. Now is the time to get it written into the Danish legislation
“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