Ecocide is a global problem, writes Bukola Saraki, and laws are desperately needed to hold companies to account for the damage they cause. Nigeria - long despoiled with impunity by the oil industry - is just the place to start.
… Fighting ecocide in Nigeria Senator Dr Bukola Saraki | 5th February 2014 Comment Ecocide Africa Nigeria Oil Fossil Fuels EU oil-flare-niger-delta.png Ecocide is a global problem, writes Bukola …
The effort to raise 1 million votes across Europe to compel EU institutions to progress a law to prevent ecocide has failed. But a powerful movement has taken shape - and the campaign will continue.
… Ecocide: 112,000 vote to criminalize … The Ecologist | 23rd January 2014 News Ecocide EU The effort to raise 1 million votes … EU institutions to progress a law to prevent ecocide has failed. But a powerful movement …
Recognising nature as a legal stakeholder with inalienable rights in environmental law proceedings is a powerful counterbalance to corporate dictatorship, writes Mumta Ito. It empowers people and governments to stand up for nature - the underlying basis of our economy and our lives. And it stands in contrast to feeble approaches based on the financialisation and commodification of nature, which may be twisted to justify more destruction.
… Mumta Ito | 9th May 2017 Comment Law Ecocide Conservation EU hierarchy of rights …
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 …
We, the signatories of this declaration, are calling on the European Union (EU) to exclude bioenergy from its next Renewable Energy Directive (RED), and thereby stop direct and indirect subsidies for renewable energy from biofuels and wood-burning.
… Ecologistas en Acción, Spain EcoNexus, UK End Ecocide on Earth, International Environmental …