Our key takeaway: Ecocide could join genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and the crime of aggression as crimes over which the International Criminal Court has jurisdiction.The Independent Expert Panel for the Legal Definition of Ecocide, coordinated by the Stop Ecocide Foundation, has just released its proposed definition of mass environmental destruction – otherwise known as ecocide:
For more, see Stop Ecocide Foundation, Independent Expert Panel for the
Legal Definition of Ecocide: Commentary and Core Text (June 2021)