Events
Stellar line-up in Almedalen
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Scania, SPP, Swedbank, The Swedish Recycling Industries’ Association, TCO (Swedish Confederation of Professional Employees), Svenskt Näringsliv (Confederation of Swedish Enterprise) – representatives discuss the pros and cons of international ecocide law from a business and employee perspective.
Joining forces globally
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Joining forces globally is effective and gives immense power to drive change.
This was one of the conclusions at a seminar on March 10, hosted by law firm Lindahl in Gothenburg in collaboration with the Ecocide Law Alliance, to discuss the value for businesses of making ecocide – mass environmental destruction – a criminal offense under the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court.
Photo shows two of the speakers: Leif Johansson and Göran Eriksson.
Bar Association event on Ecocide and Corruption
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A recent Swedish Bar Association event on ecocide and corruption featured Kate Mackintosh, a professor and director of the UCLA Law Promise Institute Europe; Parul Sharma, Secretary-General of the Swedish Anti-Corruption Institute; and Alf Blomqvist, Chair of Scandinavian Enviro Systems; – and a packed auditorium.
Human rights and the environment – increasingly important issues for companies and their advisors
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On March 7, 2024 the Swedish Bar Association and Ecocide Law Alliance, together with law firms Cirio and Mannheimer Swartling, hosted solicitors and commercial lawyers at a seminar on human rights and the environment.
How can Ecocide Law help direct our techno-economic power?
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Technology increases the speed and power of human activity, but does not make informed choices about the direction of those activities. How can making mass destruction of nature a crime before the International Criminal Court in the Hague – Ecocide Law – help direct our techno-economic power?
The multiple faces of ecocide as a new crime against humanity: challenges and opportunities for states and companies
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This event assesses how and why the recognition of ecocide as an international crime raises several questions for states, citizens but also economic actors, and how this represents an option to protect ecosystems.
Human Rights and Ecocide Law
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Dagens Industri (the Swedish Financial Times) is hosting an event on November 23 where Nina Macpherson, member of the Board of eg TRATON SE and former chief legal officer at Ericsson, and Camilla Goldbeck-Löwe, VP Corporate Responsibility, Epiroc, will address the topic “Ecocide and human rights – what can you do as chief legal officer?”
Partner event at COP26: GLOBE LEGISLATORS SUMMIT
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GLOBE International has hosted legislators’ summits coinciding with the UNFCCC Conference of Parties (COPs), since its very inception almost 30 years ago. These are key moments for cross-party legislators to convene, share innovations and best practice, network and strategise on common agendas. Outcomes can include calls to action, regional action plans, task forces or campaigns.
Partner event at COP26: Ecocide law and fashioning the future
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The production, consumption and disposal of apparel threatens environmental and social justice on a devastatingly large scale. Can the cultural concept of ‘fashion’ be transformed? And can this industry rise creatively to the challenge of an international crime of ecocide on the horizon? How could the law be welcomed as a guardrail and guidance system for net zero apparel?
Partner event at COP26: Ecocide Law & Financing the Future
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Insurers, investors, CEOs and policy makers all know that profound changes are needed for humanity to move back within a safe operating space, but current structural conditions do not support such change. Ecocide law could provide the strategic parameter required to start shifting our economic practices from causing harm to creating harmony.
Partner event at COP26: Achieving sustainability: the role of corporations, strategic litigation and ecocide law
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Business must transition to more climate-friendly practices. Civil litigation is already being used to make corporations and governments take action on climate. But could a new international crime of Ecocide address the problem at source? We examine how business is adapting and consider established and new legal approaches for guiding businesses as they transition to more sustainable behaviours.
