In 2015, Norway granted a mining company permission to discharge 250 million tons of industrial waste into one of its own fjords.

At its national convention, Radikale Venstre, the Danish Social Liberal Party and a member of Denmark’s four-party coalition government, became the first Danish political party to formally adopt support for ecocide law at the national level.

At its national convention, Radikale Venstre, the Danish Social Liberal Party and a member of Denmark’s four-party coalition government, became the first Danish political party to formally adopt support for ecocide law at the national…

A package of amendments to the Croatian penal code, including a new offence of ecocide, has been formally approved by the Government and referred to the country's Parliament for consideration.

Belgium’s ecocide law has today come into force as part of the country’s new penal code ( Article 94, Book II ), marking the final step in a legislative process that has been several years in the making.

The Croatian Government has announced plans, through a new Article (214a), to introduce a crime of ecocide - targeting the most severe forms of environmental destruction - into the country’s Criminal Code.

Environmental crime is one of the most pressing threats to the natural world and all of us who rely on it. Damage to the earth cannot be separated from damage to humans, and human prosperity cannot be conceived without a functioning biosphere. Environmental crime destabilises communities and economies, threatens public health, undermines food security, weakens the rule of law, and fosters corruption. Despite being the fourth largest criminal activity globally, it continues to receive inadequate resources and political prioritisation.

We have had ecologists from the UK in this field, who cried when they counted the amount of species they found per square meter. I have been told that in the UK there are only 6000 hectares left of such rich biodiversity, most of them created and maintained with high financial input. I try to explain this to one of my neighbours in our Transylvanian village at the foothills of the Western Carpathian Mountains, as he was praising the local, ever-expanding, large-scale farm which has managed to turn the biodiverse hay meadow into a grass monoculture.

Speaking at a parliamentary press conference, representatives Fabio Porta and Debora Serracchiani of the Democratic Party called for the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court to be amended with a new crime of ecocide.