2023
2022
2021
Stop Ecocide International (SEI) calls press conference at IUCN World Congress following unprecedented use of IUCN rule to challenge it's rejection of SEI motion
France’s Climate & Resilience Act, passed this week, includes ecocide in not one, but two contexts.
Chilean parliamentarians launch bill consisting of an amendment to the Chilean penal code to introduce a new crime of ecocide which is directly based on the new definition.
An amendment has been submitted by Baroness (Natalie) Bennett of Manor Castle to the UK Environment Bill using the full definition elaborated by the Independent Expert Panel for the Legal Definition of Ecocide convened by our Foundation. This is the first use on record of the full definition in a government bill.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has voiced his support for an international crime of ecocide.
Antigua & Barbuda’s Ambassador to the US Sir Ronald Sanders and Sir Shridath Rampal, international lawyer and former Secretary-General of the Commonwealth, welcome the legal definition of ecocide.
The Ecolo-Groen group submits a resolution to the Belgian parliament’s Foreign Affairs committee urging the government to actively support the criminalisation of ecocide
Cross-party support has been gathered for a motion to the Scottish parliament submitted by MSP Monica Lennon welcoming the new definition of ecocide.
Commissioned by the Stop Ecocide Foundation, an expert drafting panel of 12 highly renowned international criminal and environmental lawyers from around the world has just concluded six months of deliberations. The result: a legal definition of “ecocide” as a potential 5th international crime, to sit alongside genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes and the crime of aggression.
Bangladeshi parliamentary committee on the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change recommends adding a provision to the Code of Criminal Procedure or drafting a new legal framework to codify ecocide.
Baroness (Natalie) Bennett of Manor Castle, former leader of the UK Green Party, submits an ecocide amendment to the UK Environment Bill. This is the first time a potential crime of ecocide has been recorded in a UK government bill
Resolution adopted almost unanimously at global gathering of parliaments.
Samuel Cogolati, chair of the Belgian delegation behind this historic proposal was unequivocal: “It is the first time such a broad international consensus has emerged for the recognition of ecocide as a crime. The tide of political opinion is now with us.”
At the European Parliament this week, the movement to criminalize mass damage and destruction of nature or “ecocide” took a surge forward with strongly supportive votes on two key reports.
French government’s apparent confusion demonstrates why ecocide should be an international crime
Former President of Finland, Tarja Halonen, expresses her support for an international crime of ecocide
2020
Spain's Foreign Affairs Parliamentary Committee calls for consideration of criminalising ecocide
Belgium, first European country to raise issue of ecocide at International criminal Court
Dutch Party for the Animals proposal to Parliament outlining need for international legislation on Ecocide
French government betrays demands of citizens’ assembly by misleading use of the term “ecocide”
Top international lawyers to draft definition of "Ecocide"
Sweden to discuss ecocide law - Social Democrats, Greens and Left Party submit motions
Belgium pledges diplomatic action to halt ecocide crime
Stop Ecocide Advisory Board member Valérie Cabanes to speak with Pope Francis on the subject of ecocide
Greta Thunberg awarded first Gulbenkian Prize for Humanity and donates €100K to the Stop Ecocide Foundation
Belgian Green parties introduce bill to make ecocide a crime - and support ecocide amendment to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court
Greta, Luisa, Anuna, Adélaïde: citizens, scientists and influencers join youth activists calling on EU leaders to #FaceTheClimateEmergency and support making ecocide an international crime
President Macron “shares ambition” to establish international crime of ecocide
French citizens’ assembly votes to make ecocide a crime
Dare To Be Great: Self-care, Resilience and Courage in Unprecedented Times.
2020
Maldives calls for a fifth international crime of ecocide
The stories of those suffering Ecocide will be shown in The Hague
Vanuatu calls for International Criminal Court to seriously consider recognizing crime of ecocide
Ecological Defence Integrity Programme of Events during International Criminal Court, Assembly of States Parties 18th Session 2019. December 2019.
Pope Francis: Destroying the Earth is a sin and should be a crime.
Stop Ecocide proposes “concrete solution” to climate & ecological emergency at the International Rebellion
Earth Protector Towns
Stop Ecocide: Change the law - An Overview