Time to champion ecocide law and hold power to account, By Voke Ighorodje

Ecocide is now being championed by thought leading climate-vulnerable nations — including Vanuatu, Samoa, Fiji, and most recently the Democratic Republic of Congo — as a proposed amendment to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC). This bold move for environmental justice would elevate mass environmental destruction to the same legal status as genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and the crime of aggression.

A recent conversation with an…