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one law to protect the earth international roadmap to earth protection and climate justice. sign up to the campaign to make ecocide a crime at missionlifeforce.org. ecocide is “loss or damage to, or destruction of ecosystem(s) of a given territory(ies), such that peaceful enjoyment by the inhabitants despite the existence of many international agreements – codes of conduct, un resolutions, treaties, conventions, protocols etc – the harm is escalating. not one of these international agreements prohibits ecocide. the power of ecocide crime is that it creates a legal duty of care that holds persons of ‘superior responsibility’ to account in a criminal court of law. the rome statute (the governing docu*ent for the international criminal court) is one of the most powerful legal docu*ents in the world, as*igning “the most serious crimes of concern to the international community as a whole”, over and above all other laws. crimes that already exist within the jurisdiction of the international criminal court are known collectively as crimes against peace. the purpose for creating the offence of ecocide as an international crime against peace is to put in place a top level international crime, creating a legal ‘duty of care’ for all inhabitants that have been or are at risk of being seriously harmed to prevent, at the moment there is no law to stop ecocide – however, by making it an international crime, prosecutions shall be taken by the nations that are signatories to the rome statute. (this is the case even if the person or state involved is a non-signatory, as the international criminal court has powers to intervene in certain circu*stances) currently 124 states are signatories to the rome statute; the first step is simply for one or more states to propose ecocide crime. once it is presented, the amendment is then open to signatories. upon. creative commons license copyright © polly higgins, 2010-18. all docu*ents and information contained on this website are licensed.