Ecocide law is a tool for climate action.
We Don’t Have Time is launching the Changemakers’ Club, a bi-weekly broadcast highlighting the most interesting climate reviews, featured changemakers and discussions about impactful climate dialogues on the We Don’t Have Time platform. Our first episode focuses on Ecocide, exploring the concept together with our two guests Pella Thiel, Chairperson of End Ecocide Sweden and […]
Pella Thiel awarded A Sustainable Prize 2021 for her work with ecocide law
The goal is for ecocide to become a crime within the same framework as the most serious crimes against human rights: genocide, war crimes, crimes of aggression and crimes against humanity – Pella Thiel Pella Thiel, ecologist, Chair of End Ecocide Sweden and expert in UN Harmony with Nature programme receives A Sustainable Prize 2021 […]
Ecocide law will empower companies and countries to change their behaviour
Webinar: New Definition of Ecocide Law
An expert panel of international lawyers has drafted a proposal for a legal definition of Ecocide – mass destruction of ecosystems – as a potential international crime alongside War Crimes, Genocide, Crimes Against Humanity and Crimes of Aggression. According to the proposed definition, what will be a crime under international Ecocide law? What will this […]
Webinar on ecocide law for business leaders. May 31, 8 am CET.
“I had spent 15 years looking for something that could change the system of the global economy and this beautiful idea does that.” ~ Jonas Roupé, former head of strategy and business intelligence at Ericsson. “We do have the solutions. We have to implement them. Being a company and taking the first step, worrying that […]
Top lawyers drafting proposal to amend international law
75 years after Crimes Against Humanity and Genocide coined at Nuremberg International lawyers Philippe Sands QC and Dior Fall Sow have co-chaired an expert drafting panel on the legal definition of “ecocide” as a potential international crime that could sit alongside War Crimes, Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity. Launched with preparatory work in November 2020, […]
New international business network to safeguard ecosystems
Healthy ecosystems are key to human well-being. We need to prevent mass damage and destruction of nature – ecocide. There is a way, and you can help make it happen. “Stopping Ecocide through international criminal law is essential for the survival of our cultures and economies and decisive in order to safeguard global ecosystems with […]
