A Private Members Bill dubbed the 'Ecocide Bill', introduced by Baroness Rosie Boycott, aims to close an existing gap in UK criminal law which allows perpetrators of the most severe environmental harms to escape accountability. 

Monica Lennon MSP lodged proposals for a Members’ Bill in the Scottish Parliament asking people to support an ecocide prevention law that could see big polluters jailed for between 10 and 20 years.  

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.

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.

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.

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.

Shadow Justice Minister David Lammy calls for ecocide to be criminalised in his TED Countdown talk.