Read about CC's work with 🇺🇦 prosecutors to pursue justice for reckless environmental destruction in the current conflict 👇 Just Security 'No Longer the Silent Victim: How Ukrainian Prosecutors Are Revitalizing Environmental War Crime Law' justsecurity.org/91357/no-longe…

🎉AMAZING NEWS!!!🎉 Belgium has voted in a new penal code which includes recognition of the crime of #ecocide! Full story: stopecocide.earth/2024/belgium-b… Congrats Samuel Cogolati Stop Ecocide Belgium Greenpeace Belgium @canopea_be Rise for Climate Belgium + many others! #StopEcocide

Hugely significant step today as the EU introduces its tough new environmental crimes directive! We have worked with Marie Toussaint 🌍🌏 and allies to include environmental damage that is “comparable to #ecocide”. A new era of robust environmental protections!👏 euronews.com/green/2024/02/…

🥳 C'est fait ! ✅ Le Parlement européen a définitivement adopté la nouvelle directive sur la criminalité environnementale, une des législations les plus ambitieuses au monde pour lutter contre les crimes environnementaux, et notamment les écocides ! #RecognizeEcocideNow

🙌PROGRESS!🙌 #EU’s new environmental crime directive - which includes provision to criminalise cases ‘comparable to #ecocide’ - voted through by the European Parliament YESTERDAY! Find out more: stopecocide.earth/2024/eu-parlia… #StopEcocide

Congratulations on everyone who worked to ensure crimes comparable to #ecocide were included in the revised directive! We are proud to have provided extensive expert legal advice to #EU lawmakers pushing for this outcome. Now begins the work of ensuring robust implementation!

Congratulations to David Lammy on his new post as Foreign Secretary at Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office. We are proud to have him on Climate Counsel's panel of advisors.

An important moment as #ecocide takes a step towards becoming an international crime! Our lawyers have been supporting the creation of national #ecocide laws across Europe and S.America and look forward to discussions on its adoption by Int'l Criminal Court. theguardian.com/law/article/20…

Our latest #climatesecurity blog covers the human and environmental cost of Cambodia's authoritarian model of development. Click below to read about the impact of ELCs and attacks on Cambodia's environmental defenders. #ecocide #EnvironmentMatters climatecounsel.org/blog

BREAKING - the DRC becomes the first African nation to join the call for an international crime of #ECOCIDE 🇨🇩📢 The central African nation joins #Vanuatu, #Fiji + #Samoa in endorsing addition of #ecocide to Int'l Criminal Court! Full story: stopecocide.earth/2024/drc-joins… #StopEcocide

"But if we had another international crime of ecocide [...] in many cases it would be easier to prosecute situations" Richard Rogers spoke to the Counteroffensive with Tim Mak about our ongoing work in Ukraine and the role #ecocide laws could play. counteroffensive.news/p/ukraines-new…

CC is proud to be sponsoring this ASP side event on ちゃたろ Stop Ecocide International stopecocide.earth/events/a-fifth…

Happening now: Climate Counsel is proud to sponsor this ASP Panel on #ecocide, including High Commissioner for UN Human Rights Volker Türk.

Philippe Sands KC congratulates Vanuatu and Samoa for spearheading the proposal to add #ecocide as a 5th crime in the Rome Statute