Jojo Mehta on establishing a law of ecocide and drastically changing the rules
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Jojo Mehta is the co-Founder of Ecological Defence Integrity and Stop Ecocide. She carries on the legacy left by Polly Higgins, a UK lawyer who found for the recognition of ecocide as an international crime.
With Jojo, we talked about how criminalising ecocide internationally can drastically change the rules and put an end to environmentally-destructive activities on the planet.
References mentioned in this episode:
- Ecological Defence Integrity
- Stop Ecocide
- The International Criminal Court
- Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court
- Polly Higgins, Eradicating environmental crime
- Polly Higgins, Earth is our business
- Polly Higgins, Dare to be great
- Jeremy Lent, The patterning instinct
- Climate change: schools failing us, say pupils, BBC
- JP Morgan to withdraw support for some fossil fuels, The Guardian
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