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Draft plan to criminalise ecosystem destruction

Tuesday 1 Dec 20 12:00pm

INTERNATIONAL lawyers are drafting plans for a legally enforceable crime of ecocide – criminalising destruction of the world’s ecosystems – that is already attracting support from European countries and island nations at risk from rising sea levels.

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