Ecocide

14.11.2024

Question for written answer  E-002540/2024
to the Commission
Rule 144
Sebastian Everding (The Left), Anja Hazekamp (The Left), Emma Fourreau (The Left), Merja Kyllönen (The Left), Marie Toussaint (Verts/ALE), Carola Rackete (The Left), Jonas Sjöstedt (The Left), Jutta Paulus (Verts/ALE), Hanna Gedin (The Left), Dario Tamburrano (The Left), Lynn Boylan (The Left), Saskia Bricmont (Verts/ALE), Lukas Sieper (NI)

• 1.What is the Commission’s assessment of the recent formal submission of a proposal for states parties to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court to recognise ecocide as a crime at the request of Vanuatu and other Pacific Ocean island microstates?
• 2.Will the Commission agree to include ecocide as an international crime on the understanding that it is defined as any ‘unlawful or arbitrary act committed in the knowledge that there is a substantial likelihood of causing serious, widespread or long-term damage to the environment’?
• 3.Does the Commission intend to urge EU Member States to support the formal declaration submitted by the Pacific Ocean island microstates to the International Criminal Court?

Submitted: 14.11.2024