https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/08/ecocide-environmental-harm-international-crime/
Ecocide - or deliberate environmental harm - is a crime in 11 countries, and more are following suit. Mexico is the latest country to consider it. Mexico is the latest country to consider enshrining it in law.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecocide
Ecocide (Greek oikos- home and Latin cadere - to kill) is the destruction of the environment by humans. Ecocide threatens all human populations who are dependent on natural resources for maintaining ecosystems and ensuring their ability to support future generations. The Independent Expert Panel for the Legal Definition of Ecocide describes it as "unlawful or wanton acts committed with

https://www.treehugger.com/what-is-ecocide-definition-and-examples-5188053
Ecocide is the mass destruction or damage to ecosystems or harm to species caused by human activity. Learn about the term's origin, examples, and the ongoing efforts to make it an international crime under the Rome Statute of the ICC.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20201105-what-is-ecocide
Ecocide - which literally means "killing the environment" - is an idea that seems both a highly radical and, campaigners claim, a reasonable one. The theory is that no one should go

https://www.npr.org/2021/06/27/1010402568/ecocide-environment-destruction-international-crime-criminal-court
The original ecocide proposal is almost 50 years old. The intent to make ecocide an international crime isn't new. The idea was brought up by then- Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme at the 1972 U

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/ecocide-movement-pushes-new-international-crime-environmental-destruction-n1263142
A growing movement advocates making "ecocide" — widespread destruction of the environment — a crime before the International Criminal Court to serve as a "moral line" for the planet.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/push-make-ecocide-international-crime-takes-big-step-forward-n1272059
The Netherlands-based Stop Ecocide Foundation, along with a coalition of environmentalists, lawyers and human rights advocates, has been pushing since 2017 to make ecocide a crime prosecuted by

https://www.kew.org/read-and-watch/what-is-ecocide
Ecocide is the destruction of a natural environment, or very great damage to it, that some argue should be an international crime. Learn about the consequences of ecocide, the laws that exist, and the arguments for and against this concept.

https://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/ecocide-new-definition-environmental-law
Ecocide is mass environmental destruction that could be prosecuted as an international crime alongside genocide and war crimes. UCLA Law experts played a key role in the latest effort to define ecocide and make it a global legal norm.

https://time.com/5940759/ecocide-law-environment-destruction-icc/
The third way an ecocide law could be useful is by prosecuting environmental crimes that fall outside of national jurisdictions. This is especially helpful in poorer countries where legal barriers

https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/02/world/ukraine-ecocide-dam-collapse-crime-climate-intl-cmd/index.html
If ecocide were an international crime, it could give the process more authority, some experts say. "It is important to add ecocide as a crime, in the case of Ukraine, so that Russia can pay for

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14623528.2021.1964688
The IEP also offers detailed exploration of the types of environmental harm that would fall under the scope of "ecocide.". The aim of the IEP is that the definition of "ecocide" would serves as a basis for an amendment to the Rome Statute, which would make "ecocide" the fifth international crime by adding a new Article 8ter.

https://www.stopecocide.earth/what-is-ecocide
Ecocide is the mass damage and destruction of nature, a root cause of the climate and ecological emergency. Learn about the types of ecocide, such as ocean damage, deforestation, land and water contamination, and air pollution, and how to make it a crime.

https://theglobalobservatory.org/2022/03/the-benefits-challenges-and-limitations-of-criminalizing-ecocide/
The article explores the campaign to introduce a new crime of ecocide at the International Criminal Court, which would expand accountability for environmental harms. It also considers the possible benefits, challenges, and limitations of such a crime, as well as its role in environmental and climate justice.

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/articles/2024-02-02/the-eu-is-advancing-a-game-changing-environmental-law-tackling-ecocide
Ecocide is not a new concept. The term was coined in 1970 by Arthur Galston, an American bioethicist who first used the word to describe the environmental damage wrought by the U.S. government's

https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/energy-and-environment/explained-the-global-push-to-make-ecocide-a-crime/article67241080.ece
Ecocide is a crime in 11 countries, with 27 other nations mulling laws around criminalising environmental damage that is wilfully caused and harms humans, animals and plant species. The European

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/feb/24/climate-crisis-ecocide-international-crime
As ecocide becomes an impending legal reality, corporate leaders would be forced to adapt, and quickly, re-examining the way they do business and make decisions with our planet in mind.

https://financialpost.com/diane-francis/russia-dangerous-potential-unleash-ecocide-europe
Russia has turned Ukraine into the world's biggest minefield. This is not the first environmental disaster perpetrated against Ukraine. In 1986, Kremlin incompetence caused a nuclear reactor to explode at Chornobyl, spreading radioactivity across the country and Europe. Now that area, 90 kilometres from Kyiv, is a no-go zone and a massive

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/ecocide-must-be-international-crime-latin-america-cop3-escazu-agreement-environmental-rights-defenders/
The ecocide law conversation is growing louder by the day, which is particularly evident in recent and ongoing conflicts where environmental damage has been deliberately employed as a weapon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_impact_of_the_Israel%E2%80%93Hamas_war
The research project "No Traces of Life, Ecocide in Gaza 2023 - 2024" by research group Forensic Architecture at Goldsmiths, University of London, found that "The destruction of agricultural land and infrastructure in Gaza is a deliberate act of ecocide... the targeted farms and greenhouses are fundamental to local food production for a

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ecocide
ecocide: [noun] the destruction of large areas of the natural environment as a consequence of human activity action.

https://www.clearias.com/ecocide/
Learn what ecocide means, its history, challenges, and India's stand on this issue. Ecocide is a term for extensive and severe environmental damage or destruction, often as a result of human activities.

https://www.uu.nl/en/news/prosecuting-ecocide-before-the-international-criminal-court-concrete-possibility-or-long-term
This would be a fully eco-centric crime of ecocide entirely devoted and adapted to current environmental needs increasingly endangered by multifaceted human activities occurring in both war and peace times, such as illegal mining and deforestation, trafficking of waste and endangered species or pollution of rivers and oceans.

https://environment.ec.europa.eu/news/new-environmental-crime-directive-comes-force-2024-05-20_en
New rules to protect the environment through criminal law entered into force on May 20. The new Environmental Crime Directive will help achieve European Green Deal objectives by fighting against the most serious environmental offences, which can have devastating effects on both the environment and human health, through means of criminal law.. The new Directive will provide a comprehensive and

https://mitchellhamline.edu/students/2024/05/28/june-12-webinar-genocide-and-ecocide/
ecocide, the deliberate or negligent criminal destruction of the natural environment ecocide as a force multiplier of conflict strategies for prevention and intervention

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/5/29/2243369/-Can-someone-explain-to-me-what-the-Redlines-are-with-precision-Is-Ecocide-a-redline
ELI Report on Ecocide aims at contributing to inter-institutional negotiations in the EU. It provides an innovative definition of the crime of ecocide in peacetime. To facilitate legislative

https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/22/world/russia-ukraine-war-migrating-eagles-intl-scli-scn/index.html
Ukraine accused Russia of "ecocide" after suffering an environmental catastrophe in July due to the collapse of the Kakhovka dam in the south of the country that led to more than 100 people

https://www.army-technology.com/contractors/civil-defence-security-and-law-enforcement/relyant/pressreleases/60m-environmental-remediation-contract-awarded-relyant-global-us-army-corps-engineers/
Some of the NWD clients that will be supported by this contract include the Department of Defense Environmental Restoration Program, Formerly Used Defense Sites, Environmental Protection Agency Superfund and Brownfield Programs, and the Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program.

https://www.vub.be/en/news/video-this-was-vubs-honours-programme-2024-about-climate-change-and-ecocide
16 students receive certificates at closing ceremony in Muntpunt, Brussels. This initiative is part of the public programme of VUB: a programme for everyone who believes that scientific knowledge sharing, critical thinking and dialogue are an important first step to create impact in the world.. As an Urban Engaged University, VUB aims to be a driver of change in the world.

https://boxreceiver.medium.com/the-jibrail-rural-fellowship-cooperative-1943-1967-95389cc92842
Historians have found a range of culprits of the decades'-long ecocide, from monocultural mulberry cultivation during the silk boom, to European trade restrictions, to locusts. Rural Lebanon and Syria, by the early 1920s, offered a clean slate for agricultural mission experimentation. Success would be broadcast in terms of how rural life