What is Ecocide?

Subject : Environment

Section :Pollution

Ecocide is human impact on the environment causing mass destruction to that environment.
It is defined as “as unlawful or wanton acts committed with knowledge that there is a substantial likelihood of severe and either widespread or long-term damage to the environment being caused by those acts”.
Once adopted and incorporated with an amendment to the Rome Statute, this would be the only international crime that does not require direct human impact.
Ten nations have codified ecocide as a crime.
On January 22, 2013, a committee of eleven citizens from nine EU countries officially launched the “European Citizens Initiative (ECI) to End Ecocide in Europe“.