Our core work is activating and developing global cross-sector support for an international crime of ecocide. We collaborate with diplomats, politicians, lawyers, corporate leaders, NGOs, indigenous and faith groups, influencers, academic experts, grassroots campaigns and individuals to this end.

Our work sits at the intersection of legal developments, political traction and public narrative, and is thus uniquely positioned both to support and to amplify the global conversation.

The route we advocate is that of amending the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC), the only global mechanism which directly accesses the existing criminal justice systems of its 123 member states.  

Member states which ratify the crime must include it in their own domestic law, creating a uniform rule across jurisdictions.  In this way Earth’s most precious ecosystems can be protected and allowed to recover.

PROGRESS:

Interest in criminalising ecocide is already a matter of public record at parliamentary and/or government level in the following countries via motions, resolutions, parliamentary questions, petitions, white papers or full proposals of law:
Bangladesh, Brazil, Bolivia, Belgium, Canada, Chile, Finland, France, Luxembourg, the Maldives, Mexico, Netherlands, Portugal, Scotland, Spain, Sweden, the UK and Vanuatu as well as at the European Parliament, the Nordic Council and the Inter-Parliamentary Union.

Stop Ecocide International is the driving force behind, and central communications hub for, the growing global movement to make ecocide an international crime.
There are now teams and associate groups in the UK, Netherlands, Spain, Canada, Portugal, Denmark, Germany, Finland, France, Cyprus, Sweden, Australia, New Zealand, Norway, Italy, Americas, Zambia, Mali/Tunisia, Belgium and over 20,000 subscribed members (Earth Protectors)