Abstract
This chapter discusses current proposals to achieve more meaningful justice for serious environmental crimes. It takes a particular interest in exploring the feasibility of recently made suggestions for expanding accountability for environmental crimes, including through the ecocide proposal tabled by the Independent Panel of Experts (IEP) in 2021. The chapter discusses the prospects for ecocide norms adoption and enforcement both at International Criminal Court (ICC) level and in national jurisdictions. It reflects on what a future agenda for ecocide norms adoption and enforcement – and, more broadly, environmental crimes accountability – could look like. The chapter concludes that whereas the IEP ecocide proposal is valuable from a range of perspectives, that value is not mainly to be found in the prospects of adoption at ICC level and effective enforcement by the Court, but rather in the debate and developments in national legislation that it has brought with it.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | A Research Agenda for Environmental Crime and the Law |
| Publisher | Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd. |
| Chapter | 4 |
| Pages | 65-90 |
| Number of pages | 26 |
| ISBN (Print) | 978 1 80392 994 1 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published (in print/issue) - 17 Jun 2025 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© The Editors and Contributors Severally 2025.
UN SDGs
This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
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SDG 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
Keywords
- Ecocide
- Norms-adoption and enforcement
- Environmental crimes accountability
- ICC
- National jurisdictions
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