Environment – Ethical Economics Books and Research

An Economy in harmony with the Environment

SDkd9274hsDkue9 — Sun, 09 Aug 2020 09:17:28 +0000

Currently the growth model of economics, as measured by GDP, is on a collision course with environmental limits. The idea of endless growth is incompatible with what Nature can provide. So what is the alternative? Reporting on the 1988 Conservative Party conference The Economist, in an article entitled ‘The Greening of Mrs Thatcher’, quoted her as stating: ‘No generation has a freehold on the…

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Demand for new crime of Ecocide

SDkd9274hsDkue9 — Sat, 18 Jul 2020 09:23:59 +0000

According to a report in The Times (17/7/20), the campaign to make ‘ecocide’ an international crime at the International Criminal Court begun by Polly Higgins, who died last year, has been picked up by ‘Malala Yousafzai, the Nobel peace prizewinner [who] has joined Greta Thunberg and 150 celebrities and scientists calling on world leaders to make ecocide – the mass damage of nature – a criminal…

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A legal duty of care for the Earth

SDkd9274hsDkue9 — Sat, 27 Apr 2019 07:14:15 +0000

Fifteen years ago Polly Higgins abandoned her career as a barrister to campaign for an international crime of ecocide. Sadly she died of cancer on Easter Sunday at the early age of 50. Her aim in making ecocide an international crime was to enable people like company chief executives and government ministers to be prosecuted at the International Criminal Court (ICC) at The Hague for causing or…

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Creating a Legal Duty of Care

SDkd9274hsDkue9 — Fri, 16 May 2014 05:40:15 +0000

In 2010 international environment lawyer and activist Polly Higgins proposed to the United Nations Law Commission that Ecocide be made the fifth Crime Against Peace as a way of halting the degradation of the environment. In Eradicating Ecocide, she argues that our planet is fast being destroyed by the activities of corporations and governments, facilitated by ‘compromise’ laws that offer…

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Another Honour for Polly Higgins

SDkd9274hsDkue9 — Thu, 26 Sep 2013 05:44:16 +0000

In recognition of her work to create a new body of Earth Law, international environmental lawyer and activist, Polly Higgins, has been appointed to the Arne Naess Chair for Global Justice and the Environment at the Centre for Development and the Environment (SUM), an international research institution at the University of Oslo, which promotes scholarly work on the challenges and dilemmas posed by…

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Capitalism for the poor, Socialism for the rich

SDkd9274hsDkue9 — Sun, 14 Jul 2013 05:54:49 +0000

In an article in the Guardian George Monbiot posed the question: ‘Why do we ignore the most blatant transfer of money from the poor to the rich?’ He explained that on the very same day that the Chancellor announced cuts in benefits for the very poor in Parliament, another minister in Luxemburg thwarted an EU attempt to cut benefits for the very rich through the Common Agriculture Policy.

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The importance of the Law of Ecocide for a healthy planet

SDkd9274hsDkue9 — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 08:02:37 +0000

In an interview with Marcin Gerwin of the Permaculture Research Institute of Australia Polly Higgins, author of Eradicating Ecocide and Earth is our Business, explained why it is necessary to have an international law making it a criminal offence to damage or destroy the environment. To read the full interview, click here.

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Insight into decision-making at the Rio+20 Earth Summit

SDkd9274hsDkue9 — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 08:38:33 +0000

In the past many visionaries and leaders have been lawyers – think of Gandhi and Nelson Mandela. So when I arrived at the World Congress on Justice, Law and Governance for Environmental Sustainability (a pre-Rio conference) I was full of hope that just maybe we might be able to come up with some concrete legal solutions (i.e making Ecocide a crime), to halt humanity in its current trajectory of…

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Rio+20 Earth Summit

SDkd9274hsDkue9 — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 08:40:35 +0000

Many of us have great hope riding on the result of the Rio+20 Earth Summit. We’re not sure what the outcome will be, but we know that the Eradicating Ecocide team have done everything possible to put Ecocide on the map before the summit even began. Two of the Eradicating Ecocide team are out in Rio as you read this. Louise, who heads up their Legal Outreach, was invited to speak at the…

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Earth Is Our Business

SDkd9274hsDkue9 — Sat, 19 May 2012 08:45:45 +0000

International lawyer for the Earth, Polly Higgins, winner of the People’s Book Prize, has launched a ‘Who is Charles Grant?’ campaign to coincide with her new book Earth Is Our Business. The book outlines an international Law of Ecocide that Polly has proposed to the United Nations. This would enable environmental destruction to be declared illegal by making it the Fifth International Crime…

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