Environment: Crime
(asked on 24th January 2023) - View Source
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing legislative proposals to make ecocide a crime.
This question was answered on 31st January 2023
Ecocide is not a crime recognised under the International Criminal Court’s Rome Statute.
Through the Environment Act 2021 we have legislated to make the UK a world leader in environmental protection. This includes publishing a new Environmental Improvement Plan and setting new legally binding targets for England to drive action by successive governments to protect and enhance our natural world.