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Environmental justice

What is the justice response to the global environmental crisis?

The emerging concept of "environmental justice" seems to be gaining ground in the field of law. This area, which deals with prosecutions and trials related to climate justice, corporate responsibility in environmental matters, or ecocide, is covered and closely monitored by Justice Info, whether before national courts or international justice institutions.

Climate justice - A camel in a desert in Saudi Arabia. In the background, an oil facility of the oil giant Saudi Aramco.

Redefining climate justice

COP27 is being held from November 6 to 18 in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, but the logic of "climate justice" that has prevailed until now – a solidarity obligation of developed States to those of the South – hardly works any longer. The responsibility of companies producing fossil fuels is now being pushed to the forefront. […]

By Benjamin Bibas

The Skin of a Sumatran tiger is seen in a plastic bag after the arrest of a trafficker in Bandah Aceh. Where wildlife crime is particularly common.

Let’s look at wildlife crimes

A patrol of Senegalese soldiers in the forest of Casamance (Blaze Forest)

Swiss first step to investigate environmental crimes in Gambia

The unresolved responsibility of Big Oil companies in Nigeria

An outdoor trial with lawyers, military, civilians and the public standing around

In Congo, Mihonya trial shows link between environmental and war crimes

Pygmy (Twa) child in the bush (DRC)

DRC: Indigenous Twa are freed but still landless

Corporate responsibility: Switzerland says no but the UN must say yes

World watches as Swiss vote on “responsible business”

Multinationals and human rights: do states understand the urgency of a treaty?

War, law and biodiversity: a race against time

Bled by armed groups, Congo’s Virunga Park wants justice

DRC: Outcry as indigenous people convicted for “wicked destruction of nature”

Ecocide and environmental crimes draw public attention at the ICC

Climate change: How to make corporations responsible?

Environmental destruction is (already) a war crime, but is almost impossible to commit

Indigenous people are winning court battles

Ecocide as an atrocity crime – an idea whose time is overdue

Justice Info's ASP external event: Ecocide, the ICC and multilevel litigation for a global crisis

Christel Cournil: Now is the time to link the climate issue to human rights