Support EU recognition
of a crime of ECOCIDE
Demonstrate your support by endorsing the position paper below.
Stop Ecocide Foundation Position paper
with regard to the revised EU Directive on Protection of the Environment through Criminal Law
Summary:
Strengthening the international and European legal framework in the context of crimes that affect the environment: recognising “ecocide” to provide an essential guardrail against the worst harms…….
…………the urgency of taking action commensurate with the global crisis we face has been spelled out to the international community in no uncertain terms. Recognition of a crime of ecocide in the context of the revised 2008 Directive will reinforce existing laws, providing a foundational piece which is currently lacking. It will show both leadership and compassion, help to establish a moral as well as legal “red line” and create a timely steer for industry leaders and policy-makers in this crucial period, since economic and governance decisions taken now will affect not only ourselves and our loved ones but millions of species and many, many generations to come.
We therefore invite the European Union to approach this strategic legislative opportunity as the most powerful - indeed perhaps the defining - legacy issue of our time.