The Proposed Definition of the Crime of Ecocide: An Important Step Forward, but Can Our Planet Wait?

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Donna Minha is a Ph.D. candidate at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem law faculty. Her research focuses on corporate liability under international environmental law. She holds an LL.M. from American University Washington College of Law specializing in international environmental law. She is admitted to the Israeli bar.

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The Proposed Definition of the Crime of Ecocide: An Important Step Forward, but Can Our Planet Wait?

July 1, 2021

Donna Minha

Last week, an independent expert panel (“IEP”) published a proposed definition of ecocide as a potential fifth international crime to be added to the Rome Statute. The introduction of such a definition in the Rome Statute and placing crimes against the environment at the same level with “the most serious…