Criminalizing Environmental Degradation and Devastation: New Prospects for the ICC Rome Statute

• Main Author: Kelly Pisimisi
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Digital Commons @ American University Washington College of Law 2023
• Subjects: environmental justice; international law; international human rights; climate change; environmental law; environment; Comparative and Foreign Law; International Humanitarian Law; Law; Arctic; Climate change
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.wcl.american.edu/auilr/vol38/iss2/4; https://digitalcommons.wcl.american.edu/context/auilr/article/2120/viewcontent/4.pdf

Over the last decade, steadily increasing voices are ringing the tocsin to the international community for the impact of human activities on climate and their potential consequences on human life and dignity. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), in its recent (6th) Assessment Report, confirmed this assertion. Greenhouse gas concentrations and emissions (particularly CO2), as well as the retreat of arctic glaciers and the subsequent sea level rise causing—among other issues—the acidification of the oceanic waters, are some of the most evident human-induced implications on climate and the environment.