Official in-person side event of
UN Regional Climate Week Africa 2022,
29 Aug - 1 Sept, in Libreville, Gabon
This in-person event will be recorded and made available with subtitles in multiple languages.
Organised by: Stop Ecocide International
Hosted by: The Republic of Vanuatu, in association with Stop Ecocide Foundation
We are witnessing a rising frustration globally with the failure to implement the multilateral environmental agreements and pledges which already exist. Legal parameters would hold government and corporate actors to account, acting as a creative constraint and provoking the urgent new thinking and innovation we know is needed.
Making “ecocide” - severe and either widespread or long-term harm to nature - a crime could provide a legal guardrail to steer us back from the precipice by setting an outer boundary to deter, prevent and sanction the worst threats to ecosystems and keystone species.
Meanwhile, a clear legal advisory opinion on the responsibilities of states with respect to climate change could set out what citizens should expect from their policy-makers and why.
Together these avenues can frame the duties and responsibilities that could bridge to a liveable world for the children of all species, including our own.
Speakers:
Special Envoy on Climate Change, His Excellency Bakoa Kaltongga, Republic of Vanuatu.
Jojo Mehta, Chair, Stop Ecocide Foundation, Convenor of the Expert panel for the legal definition of ecocide.
Ian Redmond, renowned tropical field biologist and conservationist and Co-Founder, Rebalance Earth.
More speakers TBC