THE ECOCIDE REPORT
Whether you’re a stalwart of the growing movement to stop ecocide or new to the concept and want to find out more - the new monthly Ecocide Report is for you!
In this episode Chidi and Jojo recap some ecocide law highlights from Feb - July 2024, including The Office of the Prosecutor’s public consultation on how the ICC should advance accountability for environmental crimes, the European Union adopting a new environmental crimes directive criminalising actions comparable to ecocide, new domestic ecocide legislation in Belgium and new bills proposed in Italy and Peru, recent speeches by ICC Deputy Prosecutor Nazhat Shameem Khan and UN High Commissioner Volker Türk endorsing an international crime of ecocide, the Escazú Agreement's third COP meeting, and a successful webinar on combating environmental crime in Africa.
Also discussed was SEI CEO, Jojo Mehta's Helsinki trip which featured meetings with diplomats and a sold-out Choirs for Ecocide Law concert and the indelible the ONE DRESS: PLANET project by Lucy Tammam - raising awareness for ecocide law. Upcoming events covered include Jojo's NYC visit for UNSDG HLPF in July, September’s Summit for the Future and NY Climate Week!
In this episode Chidi and Jojo recap some ecocide law highlights from Nov 2023 - Feb 2024, including the EU agreeing to include ecocide-level crimes in it's revised environmental crimes directive, the newly proposed ecocide bills that landed in Scotland and Westminster and how COP28 and the World Economic Forum was for SEI and the team.
Chidi and Jojo were joined by a number of fantastic guests this episode, including Baroness Natalie Bennett, Co-leader of the Green Party Carla Denyer, Professor Damien Short, Dr Suwita Hani Randhawa, Monica Lennon MSP and Camden Cllr Nina de Ayala Parker.
In this episode Chidi and Jojo recap some ecocide law highlights from August to early November 2023, including proposed and progressing ecocide bills in the Netherlands, Belgium, Brazil, Spain (Catalunya), Italy, Mexico and most recently Scotland. The pair discuss endorsements of the global movement to criminalise ecocide from UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk, the Nordic Council and the Taskforce on Nature Markets and discuss ambitions for the up-coming UNFCC COP28 conference and the ICC's Assembly of States Parties at which Stop Ecocide International will have a significant presence.
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In this episode Chidi and Jojo recap some ecocide law highlights from June-September 2023, including recent proposed and progressing ecocide bills in the Netherlands, Belgium, Brazil, Catalunya and Mexico, the backing of a resolution in support of an international crime of ecocide at the recent Global Greens Conference in South Korea, ongoing discussions around ecocide and the conflict in Ukraine, the launch of the Ocean for Ecocide Law network, the ecocide law initiative being represented at the upcoming African and New York Climate Weeks and look to the rest of the year including COP28 and the ICC Assembly of States Parties.
In this episode Chidi and Jojo recap some Ecocide Law highlights from Feb - May 2023, including recent European Crime Directive developments, the generation of civil society momentum in the run-up to the UN Summit for the Future, claims of ecocide in Ukraine, a recent documentary film tour of Brazil, the launch of the Ocean for Ecocide Law network and The Republic of Vanuatu’s continued role at the forefront of several international legal initiatives to establish climate and ecological justice for those at the sharpest edge of the intersecting crises we all all face.
In this episode Chidi and Jojo recap some highlights from December 2022 - Feb 2023, including SEI's official side-event at the Assembly of States Parties (at The International Criminal Court), COP15 in Montreal, Davos, upcoming European Crime Directive votes and the brand new Ocean for Ecocide Law and Farming and Land networks.
In this episode, Chidi and Jojo recap some highlights from November 2022 including COP27 and discuss Stop Ecocide International’s December priorities including the International Criminal Court’s Assembly of States Parties and COP15 in Montreal.
In this episode, Chidi and Jojo recap some of September’s highlights including New York Climate Week & The Virtual Islands Summit and discuss some of Stop Ecocide International’s current campaign priorities such as the EU’s revision of it’s Crime Directive, the Ecosia co-designed Business Open Letter and confirmed SEI events at COP27 in Egypt.
In this very first episode of The Ecocide Report - a new podcast from Stop Ecocide International - Chidi Oti Obinara and Jojo Mehta dive into the basics of ecocide law and talk about some of the big opportunities currently in the pipeline (Sept 2022) including the European Union revising it's Environmental Crime Directive, New York Climate Week and the Walk To Stop Ecocide (as part of the Global Climate Strike).