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What’s in a name? Is it time for “ecocide” to become an international crime? A growing movement wants destruction of the environment to be treated like genocide and crimes against humanity WhatsApp AT THE NUREMBERG trials, which began on November 20th 1945, allied forces prosecuted leading Nazis for atrocities committed during the Holocaust and the second world war. Among the charges against them was something which, just four years earlier, Winston Churchill had called “a crime without a name”: genocide, the deliberate destruction of a group of people. The term, and a convention ag...

Smoke rises from an illegally lit fire in an Amazon rainforest reserve in Pará State, Brazil. Photograph: Carl de Souza/AFP/Getty Images The Paris agreement is failing. Yet there is new hope for preserving a livable planet: the growing global campaign to criminalize ecocide can address the root causes of the climate crisis and safeguard our planet – the common home of all humanity and, indeed, all life on Earth. Nearly five years after the negotiation of the landmark Paris agreement to limit greenhouse gas emissions and associated global ...

As a new, saner administration sets up shop in Washington, D.C., there are plenty of policy initiatives this country desperately needs. Beyond a national plan for the COVID-19 pandemic, progressives will strive to focus the administration's attention on challenges like fixing the broken health care system, grappling with systemic racial inequities, and a just transition from fossil fuels to renewables. These are all critically important issues. But here's the rub: Even if the Democratic administration were resoundingly successful on all fronts, its initiatives would still be utterly insuffici...

  Bill Gates, while motivated to help fight climate change, has also long been trying to make a success of his nuclear technology company  Terra Power.   The climate emergency presents him with the perfect opportunity  to promote this, and especially, to get tax–payer funding to do it, as he suggests in his new book. Elon Musk and Bill Gates: beware of gurus toting solutions to climate change Elon Musk  has grand plans to save the world. Bill Gates has just published his book  ”How To Avoid a Climate Disaster”.   They both envisage tax-payer funding for their solutions.  But ...

Courts summoned to rule on climate change 598 PARIS, Dec 29, 2020 (BSS/AFP) – Frustrated with inaction on catastrophic global warming, citizens are hauling governments and big polluters before the courts calling for “climate justice”. Increasingly the cases invoke human rights, particularly the right to life. – Boom in lawsuits – The Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia University has counted more than 1,700 legal cases filed across the globe, with over 1,300 in the United States. “We’ve seen over the last five years a dramatic increase in the number of cases filed in...