De schaduwkant van Nederland: ecoside!?

In 1969  waren verschillende landen in de United Nations (UN) bereid een vijfde wet aan te nemen als misdaad tegen de mensheid naast volkerenmoord, misdrijven tegen de menselijkheid, oorlogsmisdrijven en het misdrijf tegen agressie. De vijfde zou dan worden ‘Ecoside: crime against environment.’ 

Uit rapporten is inmiddels gebleken dat een interne taskgroep binnen de UN besloot deze vijfde wet niet in te dienen. Lobbyisten uit vier of vijf landen zagen hun gevestigde belangen in gevaar komen. Raad eens welke landen tegen lobbyden: V.S., UK, Frankrijk en…..Nederland!!!!

Gelukkig komt er nu meer tegenkracht tegen de multinationals die hele gebieden, landen ecologisch voor de toekomst verpesten, door bosbouw, mijnbouw, vervuiling van de atmosfeer. e.d.

En de jeugd wordt actief met ‘claimate change’ acties. Steun deze vrouw Polly Higgíns, ECOCIDE LAW EXPERT,  die het wilde opnemen.

Waarom is moord op de aarde geen misdaad?', dacht de Schotse advocaat Polly Higgins. 'Waarom is het niet strafbaar om de aarde uit te putten en te verwoesten?' Ze sloot haar kantoor en werd advocaat van de Aarde. En een inspiratie voor velen.

Met verdriet en verbijstering vernamen we deze week dat Higgins getroffen is door een agressieve vorm van kanker. We denken aan haar. Ze heeft diepe indruk op ons gemaakt en we zijn vastbesloten om haar werk voort te zetten en haar visie verder te verspreiden.

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PRESS RELEASE

Top Shell bosses and Dutch Minister to be investigated for Climate Ecocide ‘the missing International Crime of our Time’

British Barrister calls for criminal law of ecocide to impose a legal duty on governments to protect the public from dangerous industrial practices.

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The Dutch Minister of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy Eric Wiebes, the CEO of Royal Dutch Shell Ben van Beurden and the CEO of Shell Netherlands Marjan van Loon and have been identified as principal suspects in an Independent Preliminary Examination into the potential crime of Climate Ecocide

At a special event in the Hague accompanying the annual Assembly of States Parties to the International Criminal Court, UK barrister and internationally renowned Ecocide Law Expert, Polly Higgins, announced that independent investigative work has already commenced.

“Findings will be subject to the same stringent conditions and rigorous scrutiny as required by official ICC procedures and will scrutinise evidence suggesting that Shell, the one of the largest oil companies in the world, knew that significant adverse impacts arise from their activities”, said Ms Higgins of Ecological Defence Integrity. “Crucially, evidence has come to light to suggest that the public has been misled for more than 30 years and such evidence could amount to a crime, if ecocide crime were to exist.

“The purpose of our independent climate ecocide examination is to determine whether there is sufficient evidence both to establish a crime of ecocide and to justify its adoption as an atrocity crime alongside Genocide, Crimes Against Humanity, War Crimes and Crimes of Aggression. Ultimately it’s up to any one of the 123 Signatory Heads of States to advance ecocide crime as an urgent amendment the Rome Statute.

Ms Higgins said: "The fact that ecocide occurs during peacetime does not make it any less of an atrocity, or any less of a crime. We live in an age where the consequences of dangerous industrial activity are long-term, transboundary and can be felt on the other side of the world.”

“The problem is that climate negotiations have never taken criminal law into consideration despite the fact that the most recent report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) calls for rapid, far-reaching and unprecedented changes to prevent climate catastrophe. A criminal law of ecocide would impose a legal duty on governments to protect the public from dangerous industrial practices. Hurricanes will not wait whilst we endlessly vacillate over agreements which cannot be enforced.”

“Ecocide crime is an idea whose time has come. It is the missing international crime of our time. For frontline states suffering the devastating effects of severe weather and rising sea levels, COP24 is the wrong forum.

“I look forward to publicly reporting our findings,” said Ms Higgins. “If the evidence shows that continuous industrial activity known to adversely affect climate breakdown has been permitted, then both the Dutch government Minister and Shell’s senior officers could be held responsible for pervasive impacts on the world’s population at large, including the systemic and wide-spread collapse of ecosystems.”

Shell has repeatedly been put on notice. A high-profile shareholder challenge was raised in May 2018. A legal notice of intent to sue, for failing to act on climate change, has been served by Friends of the Earth Netherlands. The Philippine Commission on Human Rights are currently holding an international climate enquiry into the responsibility of Carbon Majors, including Shell. The Dutch Urgenda Foundation filed a successful climate suit against the Dutch Government, who now seek to challenge the legality of the ruling.

https://www.earth-law.org/climatecrime_pr/