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Small island states and countries with low-lying coast are the victims of ecocide.<\/p>

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A draft law, unveiled on June 22, defines ecocide as \u201cunlawful or wanton acts committed with knowledge that there is a substantial likelihood of severe and widespread or long-term damage to the environment being caused by those acts\u201d.<\/p>\n

Getting the law accepted would be a long process. \u00a0It could take years. \u00a0And, that is precisely why small islands and low-lying coastal states should embrace and promote it now. \u00a0 Every year that passes brings greater dangers of irreparable damage without compensation.<\/p>

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While Climate Change is not specifically mentioned in the draft law, supporting it and eventually joining in its enactment, would send a serious message to states and entities that do little or nothing to stop ecological damage to vulnerable countries.<\/p>\n

Something has to give in this unlevel playing field in which small island states and low-lying coastal states are made to suffer. \u00a0Therefore, the initiative for a new international criminal law, called \u201cEcocide\u201d, by a group of legal experts, co-chaired by British Professor Philippe Sands QC, and Dior Fall Sow, a UN jurist and former prosecutor from Senegal, is heartening news.<\/p>

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At least, it would open the door for criminal prosecutions against entities that cause ecological damage. \u00a0Eventually, it could lead to the inclusion of the harmful effects of Climate Change, which, despite all the efforts of small island states, show no prospect of slowing down, let alone ending.<\/p>\n

The possibilities for damage to countries that could be classified under ecocide are: transboundary nuclear accidents, major oil spills and Amazon deforestation. \u00a0 The Caribbean has long been exposed to nuclear accidents by the passage through the region of ships carrying nuclear waste from Japan to Europe. \u00a0Major oil spills have also now become a matter for concern in the area as oil production new extends from Trinidad and Tobago to Guyana and Suriname.<\/p>\n

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Caribbean nations ought not to be pessimistic about the chances of \u2018ecocide\u2019 being added to the four international crimes that now exist and are triable by the ICC. \u00a0It should be recalled that it was a Caribbean man, A.N.R Robinson, a former Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago who, in 1989, revived the idea of the International Criminal Court (ICC) with jurisdiction over international crimes. \u00a0He triggered the process that eventually led to the adoption of the Rome Statute \u2013 the Court\u2019s founding treaty that came into force in 2002. \u00a0 Large tasks have been taken on by small countries to success when they act together.<\/p>

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Several other small island nations, including Vanuatu, in the Pacific, and the Maldives, in the Indian Ocean, called for \u201cserious consideration\u201d of a crime of ecocide at the ICC\u2019s annual assembly of states parties in 2019. \u00a0 Undoubtedly, they had Climate Change in mind. \u00a0But, even if, at this stage, including climate change in the definition of ecocide is not possible, the opportunity should be grasped to make it attainable in the future. \u00a0The perpetrators, who are now getting a free pass, should see that the victims are serious about recompense for damage.<\/p>\n

The initiative for a new criminal law is a serious one, backed by the \u2018Stop Ecocide Foundation\u2019, a Netherlands-based global coalition. \u00a0It is the Foundation that gathered a panel of 12 leading lawyers, including Sands and Sow, to work on the draft law.<\/p>\n

Professor Sands said it creates \u201ca definition that catches the most egregious acts but doesn\u2019t catch the kinds of daily activity that so many of us, myself included, and regions and peoples and countries are involved in which cause significant harm to the environment over the long term\u201d. \u00a0The other co-chair, Dior Fall Sow said: \u201cThe environment is threatened worldwide by the very serious and persistent damage caused to it, which endangers the lives of the people who live in it. This definition helps to emphasise that the security of our planet must be guaranteed on an international scale\u201d.<\/p>

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So, while the law, if it is enacted, will not include climate change, \u00a0the panel of lawyers passionately believe that the proposed definition could provide a basis for the consideration of a new international crime. As Sands puts it \u201cwhat is original and innovative, is that the environment will be put at the heart of international law\u201d.<\/p>

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The initiative has attracted the support of the Caribbean\u2019s Sir Shridath Ramphal, himself an international lawyer, former Secretary-General of the Commonwealth and member of the UN World Commission on Environment and Development, whose 1987 report, \u201cOur Common Future\u201d awakened the world to the major threat to the environment. \u00a0He said of this new initiative: \u201cI urge serious global support for the work of the Independent Expert Panel for the Legal \u00a0Definition of Ecocide, organised by the Stop Ecocide Foundation. Their \u2018Commentary and Core Text\u2019 of a definition of \u2018ecocide\u2019 as an international crime deserve humanity\u2019s urgent attention\u201d.<\/p>\n

Every country in the Caribbean should embrace and promote the draft law to make ecocide an international crime. \u00a0Doing so would give them the support of \u00a0a further strand of international law which, along with diplomacy, is a principal tool for the defence of their interests.<\/p>\n

(The writer is Antigua and Barbuda\u2019s Ambassador to the United States and the Organization of American States.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0He is also a Senior Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies at the University of London and Massey College in the University of Toronto.\u00a0\u00a0The views expressed are entirely his own)<\/u>\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n

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Small island states and countries with low-lying coast are the victims of ecocide. A draft law, unveiled on June 22, defines ecocide as \u201cunlawful or wanton acts committed with knowledge that there is a substantial likelihood of severe and widespread or long-term damage to the environment being caused by those acts\u201d. 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