Lawyer Polly Higgins is spearheading a campaign to have 'ecocide' recognised by the UN as an international crime against peace. But how will this work in practice?
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As the destruction of the biosphere continues, we need to establish new legal systems to protect what remains. Mumta Ito proposes a new beginning for environmental law based on extending 'civil rights' to the natural world.
… | 24th April 2014 Activism Law Natural World Ecocide nature-kurdistan.jpg As the … How is this different from a 'Law of Ecocide'? The rights of nature approach, is different from the Eradicating Ecocide campaign and other initiatives because …
Can lawyers really save the world? James Thornton from UK law firm ClientEarth believes they can - and is leading the way in achieving ecological justice
… justice. HOW TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE Ecocide: making environmental destruction a … Higgins is spearheading a campaign to have 'ecocide' recognised by the UN as an …
A new book, Fragile Web, reveals why the biodiversity crisis may be humanity's biggest challenge
… hope for the future HOW TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE Ecocide: making environmental destruction a … Higgins is spearheading a campaign to have 'ecocide' recognised by the UN as an …
Anglers may set out to hunt fish - for fun or food - but they are also some of greatest protectors of aquatic environments, argues Robert MacDougall-Davis
… environments at risk HOW TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE Ecocide: making environmental destruction a … Higgins is spearheading a campaign to have 'ecocide' recognised by the UN as an …
The Native American photographer Camille Seaman documents climate change effects on the Arctic and Antarctic. Her iceberg images are aesthetically pleasing, but the key message is that they may not be here for much longer
… the icecap's chances HOW TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE Ecocide: making environmental destruction a … Higgins is spearheading a campaign to have 'ecocide' recognised by the UN as an …
Forget bats in the belfry, there are peregrines on the Houses of Parliament - not to mention a growing number of other high-profile places around the capital
… – being healthy. HOW TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE Ecocide: making environmental destruction a … Higgins is spearheading a campaign to have 'ecocide' recognised by the UN as an …
Nicola Peel's new film Blood of the Amazon tells the story of the world's largest environmental lawsuit and investigates how the oil industry threatens a fragile rainforest environment. By Jan Goodey
… while at the same time filming the unfolding ecocide for her latest documentary, Blood of …
Deep in Ecuador's Amazon rainforest, a gigantic open pit copper and gold mine is planned in the heart of the Shuar peoples' territory. David Dene tells the story of a growing international campaign to uphold and defend the 'Rights of Nature', in Ecuador and beyond.
After the world's warmest year ever governments are pouring trillions into fossil fuels every year and the UK has even created a legal obligation on itself to maximise oil and gas recovery, writes Donnachadh McCarthy. But thanks to the UK's media billionaires climate change has not even figured as an election issue. Join us to protest tomorrow!
Occupy Gandhi: a tarpaulin meditation on urgent climate action Donnachadh McCarthy | 3rd May 2015 Activism Climate Change Media UK Politics mahatma_gandhi_tavistock-cut.jpg After the world's warmest …
With EU ministers due to decide tomorrow on the future of the glyphosate in the EU, Colin Todhunter finds evidence of collusion between regulators and the corporations whose sales of the 'probably carcinogenic' herbicide add up to many billions of dollars a year - evidence that underlies a legal action alleging fraud by the European Food Safety Authority against the EU's 508 million citizens.
… for crimes against nature and humanity and ecocide in The Hague on World Food Day, … in The Hague has determined that prosecuting ecocide as a criminal offence is the only way …
Should oil and gas companies be sponsoring the arts? No, says the man behind the unconventional pressure group that's tackling the 'carbon web of institutions'
… US plans to sue BP will 'not prevent future ecocide' US officials say they are determined …
A protester acquitted last week of trespassing on the Bradley coal mine site in County Durham has spoken exclusively to The Ecologist. ALEXANDRA HEAL reports
… direction of complete climate breakdown and ecocide.” She added: “For me, if I can …
The human family must come together now to stop Ebola in West Africa or risk a global pandemic that could potentially kill billions, writes Glen Barry. And that will mean solving, with equity and justice, the disease's root causes: rainforest loss, poverty, war and overpopulation.
… more Ebola-type crises as these forces of ecocide overwhelm the biosphere. Love in the …