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Might other enforcement options prove more strategic and promising at countering ecocide than expanding International Criminal Court jurisdiction?

Environmental activist Greta Thunberg and Fridays For Future stood in solidarity with Ukrainian refugees for a compelling demonstration outside the SB58 United Nations Climate Conference in Bonn. Under the banner 'Stop Ecocide in Ukraine, Stop ...

It has been more than one year since the Russian Federation led by none other than Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine illicitly for the second time. For all of the heroism, valour and durability that the Ukrainian nation continues to exhibit, even they did not foresee the cataclysmic series of events that would befall on their homeland.

The impending climate catastrophe – the effects of which can already be directly felt in various environments across the globe – strikes some people as wildly urgent and others as a problem for some undefined later time. Part of this wide difference in people’s sense of urgency is explained by how close they are to the problem.

Ecocide is a term used to describe crimes against nature, and it has just been added to Europe’s draft list of environmental crimes.  This draft law will require member states to ensure that any action they take does not cause wide-spread and/or long-term impacts to the environment. The law will…

Ecocide - destroying, polluting or damaging the natural living world on a large scale - is not among the crimes that can be prosecuted at the International Criminal Court in The Hague

An astonishing achievement from the world-famous Complicité, starring Kathryn Hunter

 

Ecocide is ‘killing’ the earth, campaigners warn. That’s why we need to make it an international crime.

We environmentalists must avoid sending the message that the situation is hopeless. Let’s focus on solutions, says author Isabel Losada