States Parties of the #ICC should establish a Special Working Group on Ecocide at the 2024 Assembly Session, to include #ecocide in the Statute: the #ICC must be able to address serious environmental harm threatening humankind or the planet (https://t.co/ttwIZ0Zd8y). #ASP22
BREAKING ⚠️ We’re taking BP's Senior Executives to the International Criminal Court for Crimes against Humanity!
TODAY @ukycc & @sfcsnz have submitted a request to the ICC to open an investigation into BP senior executives for their role in causing climate change‼️
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What drove 22-year-old Phoebe Nikolaou to sue the NZ govt for issuing oil and gas permits? “The permits would allow drilling for another 10 years. That’s just completely unreasonable.” https://t.co/ZXW4OhmQ54
Finally.
Our Minister of Energy was taken to court over issuing onshore oil-and-gas licenses. In 2021. I wrote a report saying why the climate would be unhappy. But because the Crown Minerals Act explicitly encouraged fossil fuel exploration, we lost.
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Global energy experts say we have more than enough fossil fuels to carry us to net-zero by 2050. Yet the NZ Energy Minister approve a permit to look for more oil & gas. After students sued, that decision is being examined in a High Court hearing this week https://t.co/14S0Ulzvuy