What is Ecocide?
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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“.