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France to champion international crime of ecocide

 

Dear Friend  The possibility of establishing ecocide as an international crime has just come significantly closer.   President Emmanuel Macron this week gave his official response to the 150 randomly selected members of the French citizens assembly on climate, the Convention Citoyenne pour le Climat (CCC), a body he convened last year to provide proposals to the government to tackle climate change. The assembly’s deliberations took 9 months.  Foremost among their proposals, supported by a remarkable 99.3% of the assembly, was making ecocide a crime.  Macron stopped short of accepting the exact text proposed, but clearly endorsed the principle. He assured the citizens of his support: “We'll study, with you and legal experts, how this principle can be incorporated into French law." Moreover he specifically promised, on behalf of France, to champion the enshrining of ecocide crime in international law. “As for ecocide, I think I was the first leader to use that term when the Amazon was burning," the head of state said. "So I share the ambition that you defend … the mother of all battles is international: to ensure that this term is enshrined in international law so that leaders … are accountable before the International Criminal Court.” This is a huge step forward.  Already the conversation is expanding and interest in the subject is growing fast.  Our alerts for press mentions of “ecocide” are pinging several times a day now (bear in mind 18 months ago this was once or twice a month!)... bron: Newsletter July 2020, team@stopecocide.earth, www.stopecocide.earth