Stockholm+50 Youth Task Force demands ecocide law

The official first draft of the Global youth policy paper S+50 (for the Stockholm+50 International UN meeting, June 2022) is now published, conducted by the S+50 Youth Task Force .The position paper was conducted by the S+50 Youth Task Force and was put together following global consultations. This paper contains a brief description of the S+50 Youth Task Force, and the 34 policies that the Task Force has put together following global consultations.
The first demand is clear: 

“ 1. Provide constitutional and other legal guarantees of the right to a healthy and sustainable environment to enable victims of climate change to take polluters to court over crimes such as ecocide. More specifically, criminalizing large-scale environmental destruction by including ecocide in the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court”.

This demand was presented to the Swedish Government, to UNEP and also during the intervention from the Global Youth at the S+50 preparatory meeting in New York. It is now clear that youth voices from all over the world call for an ecocide law and for the demands to be heard in the S+50 international meeting.

For more information, please visit the Stockholm +50 Youth Engagement web site

COY16: Global youth voices demand ecocide law

The 16th UN Climate Change Conference of Youth which took place right before COP26, brings together young delegates from all around the world and serves as a space for capacity building, networking and policy training.

One of the major outputs of COY16 is the policy document crafted by youth voices globally, the Global Youth Statement, which tackles various topics.

Under the demand "Politics and Policy making", they demand governments: "To implement legal sanctions for actions and crimes against the environment (including ecocide), especially those coming from big corporations and fossil-fuel companies."