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Austria set to lead on global law against Ecocide

Polly Higgin's work on a 'law to end ecocide' is about standing up to injustice, this time for our collective global environment. Her global campaign to end Ecocide is gathering further momentum.Recently she went to Vienna to give a speech ecocide to Austrian leaders. The Austrian Goverment is arranging cross-party political support to change the International Rome Statute to include Ecocide as an international crime.

Further article on ecocide; a new legal framework to prevent fracking and other pollution

Not quite a month ago I presented a motion on one of my key terms for my PhD studies at the National Green Party Convention to help bring this new term into the political and public domains. I was asked to make a press statement afterward and I also wrote the following article for all…Read more Further article on ecocide; a new legal framework to prevent fracking and other pollution

Hollywood, ‘the little wood that could’ is a small 2-acre Close-to-Nature continuous cover forest growing under the Blackstairs Mountains, in South County Carlow, Ireland. Photo: Martin Lyttle

Eradicating ecocide in Ireland to make sustainability legal

Update 15. 4. 2013: This motion to end ecocide was presented by Cathy Fitzgerald, Carlow Kilkenny Green Party and unanimously adopted by the Green Party of Ireland and Northern Ireland at the 2013 Green Party annual Convention in Galway on 13 April, 2013. My thanks to all who supported this. Please do not forget to…Read more Eradicating ecocide in Ireland to make sustainability legal