Bangladesh: environment committee asks government to legislate for ecocide

The Bangladeshi parliamentary committee on the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change has just recommended adding a provision to the Code of Criminal Procedure or drafting a new legal framework to codify ecocide. 

The committee's chairman Saber Hossain Chowdhury commented: "Just as genocide is treated as a crime, the destruction of an ecosystem also warrants the same treatment. This is because without an ecosystem, none of us can survive."

Chowdhury is a former president of the Inter-Parliamentary Union which voted almost unanimously in May of this year to support national parliaments considering ecocide legislation.