Professor Emeritus of International Law, Private International Law and European Law at the University of Milan.| Ecocide Law
Member of the ELI Council’s Membership Committee and co-chaired ELI’s Fundraising Committee.| Ecocide Law
What is missing to prevent severe contamination of & damage to marine ecosystems? Existing environmental protections are often not adhered to or are poorly enforced. Many states and sectors of civil society are speaking out in support of stronger legal frameworks & accountability. The legal recognition of “ecocide” (severe & either widespread or long-term harm...| Ecocide Law
The farming community and landworkers are on the front line in the effort to conserve the natural world and see at first hand the damage being done. This webinar examines how a new crime of ecocide can strengthen existing environmental laws and safeguards, help create a level playing field for our food producers and preserve...| Ecocide Law
This lunchtime panel event held alongside the World Economic Forum meetings on 19th January 2023 explains how legal recognition of “ecocide” (severe and either widespread or long-term harm to nature) at the international level can create an outer-boundary guardrail, to safeguard the living world by deterring and preventing the worst harms, while leveling the playing...| Ecocide Law
By recognising ecocide at the International Criminal Court, key decision makers can be held to account. Acting as a powerful deterrent against mass destruction of the environment, such a law could create lasting protection for vital ecosystems and life on earth as well as justice for those most threatened. At the same time it would...| Ecocide Law
Recognizing “ecocide” – severe and either widespread or long-term harm to nature – as a crime at the international level could provide a protective and preventive legal guardrail that is currently missing. It would set an outer boundary to deter and sanction the worst threats and harms to the environment, while reframing and supporting the...| Ecocide Law
Official side event of the 21st Session of the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, The Hague. Mass damage and destruction of vital ecosystems through human activity now constitutes precisely such a threat on a global scale. Now increasingly referred to as “ecocide”, not only has this direct...| Ecocide Law
Making “ecocide” – severe and either widespread or long-term harm to nature – a crime at the could provide a legal guardrail to steer us back from the precipice by setting an outer boundary to deter, prevent and sanction the worst threats to ecosystems which are a root cause of climate change. Meanwhile, a clear legal advisory opinion on the responsibilities of states with respect to climate change could set out what citizens should expect from their policy-makers and why. Learn about...| Ecocide Law
1990: Vietnam becomes the first State to codify ecocide in its domestic law| Ecocide Law