French development agency: ecocide law will "ensure planet’s habitability"

Summary:

• In a new report, the Agence Française de Développement (AFD), France’s international development agency, has identified ecocide law and the rights of nature as key "levers" for reshaping the world’s economic priorities towards environmental and human wellbeing.

• In the report’s foreword, the AFD’s Chief Executive, Rémy Rioux, praised the potential of Europe’s revised Environmental Crime Directive (ECD), to “lay the foundations for the recognition of ecocide”. 

• Rioux also made mention of the ECD’s criminalisation of mass environmental harm, which can be ‘comparable to ecocide’, as among “original initiatives and solutions springing up all over the world to give living things - human and non-humans - the attention they deserve and to ensure the planet’s habitability for the entire biosphere”.

• Pella Thiel, co-founder of End Ecocide Sweden, an associate group of Stop Ecocide International, was also among the report’s contributors.

You can read the full Agence Française de Développement report here.