December 2021 - SAMOA
Samoa supports the ecocide conversation at the ICC by co-hosting official side event and providing a supporting statement from the Prime Minister.
December 2021 - BANGLADESH
Bangladesh supports the ecocide conversation at the ICC by co-hosting official side event and providing a supporting statement.
December 2021 - VANUATU
Vanuatu continues its long-standing support of the ecocide conversation at the ICC by co-hosting official side event and providing a supporting statement.
December 2021 - FINLAND
Finland’s foreign minister supports the ecocide conversation at the ICC in his official statement to the Assembly of States Parties.
December 2021 - BELGIUM
Belgium supports raising awareness of ecocide internationally in its official statement to the International Criminal Court’s Assembly and intervenes (see 1h26m) in official ICC side event.
November 2021 - IRELAND
Jennifer Whitmore TD asks a parliamentary question: will the Irish government support the recognition of ecocide as an international crime?
November 2021 - UK
Shadow Secretary of State for Justice, David Lammy MP publicly announces during COP26, the commitment of the Labour Party to support discussions around an international crime of ecocide.
November 2021 - MEXICO
Senator Raúl Paz Alonzo asked the Mexican Government to recognise ecocide as the fifth Crime against World Peace and Security.
November 2021 - BELGIUM
Belgium’s parliamentary Foreign Affairs Committee passes resolution;
“calling on the Belgian government to include the crime of ecocide in the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, and in the Belgian Penal Code.”
October 2021 - SPAIN
A proposal was registered at the Ecological Transition Committee of the Congress asking the government to support the creation of Ecocide crime. (P. 50)
September 2021 - UK
Lords debate of revised amendment to UK Environment Bill by Baroness Bennett. Environmental bill - Amendment 126: ‘ecocide’, that Her Majesty’s Government support the negotiation of an amendment to the Statute of the International Criminal Court to establish a crime of ecocide.
August 2021 - FRANCE
Climate & Resilience Act passed, including up to 10 year sentences for "ecocide" offences (Art 231-3) and a requirement for gov't to report on progress towards international crime of ecocide (Art 296)
July 2021 - CHILE
Parliamentary resolution passed calling on the government to pursue proposing an ecocide amendment to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.
June 2021 - SCOTLAND
Parliamentary motion calling on the government to welcome the work of the Independent Expert Panel for the Legal Definition of Ecocide and welcome the emergence of broad international consensus for the recognition of ecocide as a crime.
June 2021 - UK
Environment Bill - Two Amendments287: To support the negotiation of an amendment to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court to establish a crime of ecocide.
293D : To support a UK crime of ecocide using the full recently launched definition.
June 2021 - BANGLADESH
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.
June 2021 - EUROPEAN UNION
The EU’s newly adopted Biodiversity Strategy includes: "Encourages the EU and the Member States to promote the recognition of ecocide as an international crime under the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC)."
May 2021 - EUROPEAN UNION
European Parliament’s Legal Affairs committee on the liability of companies for environmental damage urges the European Commission to “study the relevance of ecocide to EU law and EU diplomacy” (para 12).