A global movement has been working to define ecocide – mass environmental destruction – as a crime and push for its inclusion in the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC). Environmental devastation, such as oil spills and deforestation, is wreaking havoc on ecosystems and economies.
Businesses, while claiming no harmful intent, are often indifferent to the damage they cause, enabled by weak regulation. Vanuatu, in 2019, became the first country to advocate for ecocide to be recognised as an international crime, which would hold decision-makers criminally responsible for large-scale environmental destruction.
Pensions for Purpose supports Stop Ecocide International, other organisations, and a number of pacific islands calling for a criminal law on ecocide.
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