On November 27th, the Justice and Human Rights Commission of the Peruvian Congress approved a motion to criminalise ecocide, incorporating key elements of the 2021 IEP consensus legal definition. This significant step toward adding ecocide to the Penal Code now awaits plenary approval by Congress and presidential promulgation to become law.

Peru has taken a significant step toward criminalising ecocide, as a national congressional Technical Committee successfully consolidated three separate proposed ecocide bills into a unified legislative text.

Two new ecocide bills have been introduced in Peru's parliament by members of the Perú Libre and Cambio Democrático parties, adding to a previous submission and signalling a concerted move towards amending the penal code to include ecocide, based on the Independent Expert Panel’s consensus definition formulated in 2021.

On 16 May 2024, opposition congressman Américo Gonza introduced a bill to Peru’s parliament proposing to amend the country’s penal code to criminalise ecocide on the national level. The proposed amendment text closely emulates the consensus definition of ecocide produced by Stop Ecocide Foundation’s Independent Expert Panel.