Tough new laws that would could send the worst environmental and climate criminals to jail for 20 years are being proposed by MSP Monica Lennon.
Tough new laws that would target the worst environmental and climate criminals - and could potentially send offenders to jail for 20 years - are being proposed by Labour MSP Monica Lennon. Some 98 per cent of respondents to a public consultation on Lennon’s proposed Ecocide Prevention Bill backed her plan, the Record can reveal.
And it comes as campaigners for ecocide laws at an international level have made major progress, with the EU adopting a new offence covering “ecocide-level crimes” last year, while a new crime of ecocide is also being proposed in the International Criminal Court . We previously told how ecocide laws could be used to capture a wide range of the worst polluting acts - from large-scale sewage dumping in rivers, to new fossil fuels schemes and even eco damage caused by wars.
The Scottish Labour politician added: “With COP29 under way and the climate and nature emergency impacting on our daily lives, we can move closer to making ecocide a crime and call time on the worst atrocities against nature.”
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