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 […]

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