Adnan Nasir Khan:The proposal to recognise ecocide as a fifth crime under the Rome Statute presents an important question for international criminal law: not simply whether severe environmental destruction should be criminalised, but whether international criminal law can develop a framework capable of addressing such destruction without sacrificing legality, fairness and effective accountability.
In my view, the debate should move beyond a binary “for or against” approach. The stronger question is what an...(more)
Borys Babin:
Next Step in Global Reaction to International Environmental Crimes
Issues of the international crimes against the environment, including the aspect of ecocide qualification, are the sustainable topic of the researches of the Association of Reintegration of Crimea (ARC).
ARC expert publications exposed propaganda fakes regarding the events of Russia-Ukrainian coflict, on the destruction of the Kakhovka Dam, on Black Sea pollution, on illicit “Crimea claims...(more)
park2026:
Criminalizing Ecocide: Will Corporations Change?
Introduction
As climate change accelerates and ecosystems face unprecedented destruction, existing legal frameworks have proven inadequate to prevent or meaningfully deter large-scale environmental harm. Corporations, especially transnational corporations operating across jurisdictions, play a central role in driving deforestation, pollution, biodiversity loss, and greenhouse gas emissions, often...(more)
Wangu Gatonye:
I.
Introduction
“Ecocide” was coined in the 1970s through a proposal by Professor Arthur W. Galston, but has only recently gained popularity in legal circles.1
The proposed definition is: “[U]nlawful or wanton acts committed with knowledge that there is a substantial likelihood of severe and either widespread or long-term damage to the environment being caused by those acts.”2
The work that the diverse Independent...(more)
Talia Boyadjian:
Why the
IEPs
Draft Definition of Ecocide Cannot Work as a Core Crime
The concept of
ecocide
has circulated long before current efforts to amend the
Rome Statute,
with domestic and international circles debating it as a proposed legal tool to address human-caused extreme environmental destruction.1
Early formulations data back to the Vietnam War in response to large-scale wartime...(more)
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