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

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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

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Polly Higgins believes, when it is right to speak out and shine a light on a dark corner. “Such are the consequences of our current business practices that we are now on a course that spells disaster for humanity and the Earth. To ignore the warning issued by the OECD last week – that current policy

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To test the practicality of Polly Higgins’ proposal to make Ecocide a crime, a mock trial was held in the UK Supreme Court in September 2011 at which the two Chief Executives of two fictional oil companies were found guilty by the jury of the crime of Ecocide. As a further test of the practicality Polly

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Polly Higgins, the author of Eradicating Ecocide features in a new youtube video which has just been released. From 21st Feb to 15th March, she will be visiting Canada and the United States for a book and lecture tour. We will be updating the dates and venues as they are confirmed: Feb 17 – 20: Toronto. Feb 18:

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On the 30th of September 2011 a mock Ecocide Trial was held in the UK Supreme Court. It took just 50 minutes for the jury to return with two unanimous guilty convictions of ecocide against the CEO’s of oil companies operating in the Athabasca Tar Sands. What is Ecocide? The United Nations is considering a petition to

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Voted the people’s favourite, Eradicating Ecocide by Polly Higgins is this year’s winner of The People’s Book Prize for non-fiction. The winner is chosen by popular vote rather than by a panel of judges. Speaking from the People’s Book Prize Awards Ceremony, held at the The Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers in London,

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Two recent articles have drawn attention to pioneering efforts by the government of Bolivia to change the way we relate to the earth on which all life and economic activity depend. The Guardian: ‘Bolivia is set to pass the world’s first laws granting all nature equal rights to humans. The Law of Mother Earth, now agreed

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