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EVERYBODY’S TALKING ABOUT
ECOCIDE LAW
At the end of a week of global awareness-raising (and the end of a long day) this was snapped in Stockholm… Greta, Andreas & friends joined many taking action across Europe and beyond to raise awareness of the need to criminalise ecocide. Read more about the multi-level mobilisation and ecocide events HERE.
21st March
Iceland:
Last month, an Ecocide resolution was submitted to Parliament calling for support for an international crime of ecocide as well as national ecocide legislation, with cross party support from Pirate Party, Liberal reformation, Social Democrats and Left Greens.
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28th March
Stockholm+50 Youth Task Force:
The official first draft of the Global youth position paper for the UN Stockholm+50 meeting (June 2022) is now published, compiled by the S+50 Youth Task Force. This paper contains 34 policies that the Task Force has put together following global consultations, and the first demand is for ecocide law.
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5th April
Spain:
The Congress of Deputies has given the green light to a Popular Legislative Initiative assigning legal status to the Mar Menor, Europe’s largest saltwater lagoon. The vote triggers the process to pass a law granting the lagoon its own rights, making it the first European ecosystem to be protected in this way. This legislative move could pave the way towards a complementary protective criminal law i.e. a crime of ecocide.
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8th April
EU:
EU European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) has publicly declared that “recognition of ecocide as an international crime is crucial for tackling environmental offences.” The Committee believes ecocide should be addressed directly in the substance of the revised EU Directive on improving protection of the environment through criminal law.
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UPCOMING EVENTS:
Apr 19, (9am Santiago)
WEBINAR in Spanish
Sinergia intergeneracional por la integridad ecológica ….
22nd April, (9-10am London)
WEBINAR
The green room for earth day: ecocide as an international crime
18th May, (2-3pm Vienna)
WEBINAR
Criminalising ecocide: a new deterrent to crimes that affect the environment
TELL US ABOUT THE PARTICULAR ECOCIDE YOU ARE FACING
Are you standing up to protect your land or community from severe, or the threat of severe and widespread or long-term harm to ecosystems? We’d love to help make your story visible, in your voice. Write us a piece of up to 700 words about why you believe what you’re facing could be a case of ecocide and what’s going on with your campaign… and send to guestblog at stopecocide.earth along with any images that will help tell the story.
SUPPORT THIS CRUCIAL WORK
…to protect life on Earth. It’s what ecocide law can make possible. It’s the enforceable guardrail to ensure best practice and catalyse positive change… not to mention a powerful and much-needed enabling condition for implementing global environmental agreements.
Want to join the conversation? We have teams or associate groups in over 20 countries and interest-based networks too - faith, youth, business, lawyers, farmers… Get in touch!
Donate now to help Stop Ecocide progress this crucial work:
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Stop Ecocide International Ltd , Registered address: Willow Court, Beeches Green, Stroud, , Gloucestershire GL5 4BJ UK, Registered company number: 10830859
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Subject: Everybody’s talking about ecocide law
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