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The newly drafted definition places the crime of causing severe environmental harm on the same level as other international crimes, like genocide.
Scholars from The Promise Institute for Human Rights, part of the UCLA School of Law, have played a large part in defining the new crime of ecocide, which could have significant implications for battling climate destruction.
Kate Mackintosh
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The latest effort to produce a new internationally accepted legal definition of ecocide meant to describe mass environmental destruction had its roots in a 2020 symposium at UCLA. The event explored the connection between human rights and the climate crisis, and gave rise to a working group dedicated to exploring a new definition for the term. The group joined forces with a new international drafting panel, co-deputy chaired by Kate Mackintosh, executive director of The Promise Institute.
A single emergency power accounts for 37 of the 40 national emergencies active today: the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), which underlies most U.S. economic sanctions regimes. Although it was originally enacted to constrain the president during peacetime, Congress today has almost no ability to check presidential uses (or abuses) of this extremely broad power. Moreover, sanctions programs and targets have ballooned since IEEPA’s enactment, harming both Americans’ constitutional rights and the well-being of civilians abroad. The Biden administration has pledged to review the sanctions regimes currently in place, and voices inside and outside of government are calling for reform. A recent report released by the Brennan Center for Justice,