UN General Assembly: President Vurobaravu urges statesto support including a crime of ecocide in the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC), telling the Assembly that “acting with knowledge of severe and widespread or long-term damage to the environment can no longer be tolerated”.

Senator David Shoebridge (Australian Greens), in his first speech to the Australian Senate Chamber on 2nd August, declares he believes it is “time to enact a new criminal offence of ecocide. Ecocide is the mass, widespread damage and destruction of ecosystems in nature”.

Kenya’s Cabinet Secretary for the Environment and Forests, Mr Keriako Tobiko, revealed a landmark legislation proposal, stating that said proposal "contains critical principles”, which include the “recognition of the right to nature and, most importantly, creation of the crime of 'ecocide’.”

Issue of criminalising ecocide raised during parliamentary speech given by Member of the House of Representatives, Ms. Alexandra Attalides, from Movement of Ecologists-Citizens Cooperation.

Danish parliament discusses ecocide following a question submitted to the Foreign Minister and resolves (see 15.22: A. Lind), by large majority, to follow ecocide conversation internationally.

Ecocide parliamentary resolution submitted to Parliament calling for support for international crime of ecocide as well as national ecocide legislation. With cross party support from Pirate Party, Liberal reformation, Social Democrats and Left Green.

European Parliament Report on Human Rights & Democracy recommends EU member states to support criminalising ecocide at the ICC & also examine relevance to EU law.

Samoa supports the ecocide conversation at the ICC by co-hosting official side event and providing a supporting statement from the Prime Minister.

Bangladesh supports the ecocide conversation at the ICC by co-hosting official side event and providing a supporting statement.

Vanuatu continues its long-standing support of the ecocide conversation at the ICC by co-hosting official side event and providing a supporting statement.

Finland’s foreign minister supports the ecocide conversation at the ICC in his official statement to the Assembly of States Parties.

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.

Jennifer Whitmore TD asks a parliamentary question: will the Irish government support the recognition of ecocide as an international crime?

The provisional government of West Papua launches its Green State Vision in Glasgow during COP26, explicitly including the criminalisation of ecocide.

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.

Senator Raúl Paz Alonzo asked the Mexican Government to recognise ecocide as the fifth Crime against World Peace and Security.

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.”

A proposal was registered at the Ecological Transition Committee of the Congress asking the government to support the creation of Ecocide crime. (P. 50)

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.

Subcommittee on the General Framework for Human, Environmental & Natural Rights of the Constitutional Convention discusses ecocide, resulting in a favourable vote for an annex (first draft HERE ) to be added to the new Chilean constitution.