environmental destruction

President Donald Trump’s day one E.O. titled "Putting America First in International Environmental Agreements" combines provisions that are straightforward, inconsistent with…

What does the proposal from Vanuatu, Fiji, and Samoa to add ecocide as a new international crime mean in practice?

Experts close to the efforts to make ecocide an international crime weigh in on what they believe criminalization can achieve.

Prosecutions for environmental destruction have been notably absent from war crimes trials to date. In Ukraine, this is about to change.

It is time for Canada to put human rights over corporate interests and re-examine its support for Enbridge's Line 5.

Might the prospects of meaningful norms enforcement of ecocide at the International Criminal Court level be disproportionate to the investments needed – and challenges associated…

The Nova Kakhovka Dam destruction, already labelled an act of “ecocide” by some, will undoubtedly reinforce calls for the ICC to focus more on environmental crimes and further…

A "Model Law" addressing ecocide and other environmental crimes could help heighten the stigma against grave environmental harms.

In its decades-long relationship with the Marshall Islands, Palau, and Micronesia, "the United States has refused to fulfill the most basic requirement of allyship: accountability.…

"While climate justice was taken at least somewhat seriously at the United Nations COP27 conference, little effort seems to have been made to change the business-as-usual approach…

"[T]he proposal to criminalize mass damage to the environment is ... likely to influence the behavior of government and corporate decision-makers in positive ways. In light of…