Pacific island nations want ‘ecocide’ to be an international crime

Pacific island nations want ‘ecocide’ to be an international crime

Three nations submitted a petition to the International Criminal Court Originally published on Global VoicesClimate strike in 2019 in Vanuatu. Photo from the Flickr account of 350.org. CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 The Pacific Island nations of Vanuatu, Fiji, and Samoa have formally asked the International Criminal Court (ICC) to include the term “ecocide” as a crime covered by the body. Based on their proposal, ecocide is defined as “unlawful or wanton acts …