The Hague: A group of climate lawyers called for Tuesday International Criminal Court President of Brazil to launch investigation into possible crimes against humanity over his administration heroine policies
The AllRise Group filed a dossier in a global court alleging that Jair BolsonaroThe U.S. administration is responsible for a “massive attack on Amazon, its dependents and its defenders” that affects the global population.
The call comes less than three weeks before the 26th Climate Change Conference of the Parties of the United Nations, known as COP26, begins in Glasgow on 31 October.
The 12-day summit aims to secure more ambitious commitments to limit global warming to below 2 °C, with a goal of keeping it to 1.5 °C compared to pre-industrial levels.
The event also focuses on raising funding to fight climate change and protect vulnerable communities and natural habitats.
Since taking office, Bolsonaro has encouraged growth within the Amazon and dismissed global complaints about its destruction as a plot to take back Brazil’s agribusiness.
His administration also undermined environmental officials and supported legislative measures to loosen land security, encouraging land grabbers.
“Crimes against nature are crimes against humanity.
Jair Bolsonaro is promoting the massive destruction of the Amazon with open eyes and full knowledge of the consequences,” Allrise founder Johannes weesemann said in a statement. “The ICC has a clear duty to investigate environmental crimes of such global gravity.”
This is not the first time that opponents of the right-wing Brazilian leader have asked the ICC to intervene.
Two years ago, a group of Brazilian lawyers and former ministers requested that the court investigate Bolsonaro for allegedly inciting the genocide of indigenous peoples and failing to protect forests and protected lands.
The court’s prosecuting office receives hundreds of such filings each year, detailing alleged crimes around the world.
It is obliged to study all of them and evaluate whether the request falls within the jurisdiction of the court, and if so, whether it entails further investigation or an ongoing investigation by the Prosecution Office.
Activists are pushing for the prosecution of crimes against the environment to be part of the ICC’s core mission.
In June a panel of international lawyers and experts published a proposed legal definition of the crime of “ecology”, stating that “protection for serious environmental harm, already recognized as an international matter” The time has come to expand the Court Establishment Treaty to include. Worry.”
Before Bolsonaro took office in 2019, Brazil’s Amazon had not recorded a year with more than 10,000 sq km of deforestation in a decade.
Between 2009 and 2018, the average per year was 6,500 sq km, while the average during this period was 10,500 sq km bolsonaroPeriod.
But preliminary data released last month by Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research showed deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon declined for the second month in a row in August compared to the same period in 2020.
Weisman, however, insists that Bolsonaro must be held accountable to Amazon communities and the world.
“Our initiative is strongly supported by Brazil, but we do not wish to speak on behalf of any Brazilian community or claim to represent them,” he said.
“Our case aims to add a significant international dimension to their struggle. Amazon is theirs, but we all need it.”
The AllRise Group filed a dossier in a global court alleging that Jair BolsonaroThe U.S. administration is responsible for a “massive attack on Amazon, its dependents and its defenders” that affects the global population.
The call comes less than three weeks before the 26th Climate Change Conference of the Parties of the United Nations, known as COP26, begins in Glasgow on 31 October.
The 12-day summit aims to secure more ambitious commitments to limit global warming to below 2 °C, with a goal of keeping it to 1.5 °C compared to pre-industrial levels.
The event also focuses on raising funding to fight climate change and protect vulnerable communities and natural habitats.
Since taking office, Bolsonaro has encouraged growth within the Amazon and dismissed global complaints about its destruction as a plot to take back Brazil’s agribusiness.
His administration also undermined environmental officials and supported legislative measures to loosen land security, encouraging land grabbers.
“Crimes against nature are crimes against humanity.
Jair Bolsonaro is promoting the massive destruction of the Amazon with open eyes and full knowledge of the consequences,” Allrise founder Johannes weesemann said in a statement. “The ICC has a clear duty to investigate environmental crimes of such global gravity.”
This is not the first time that opponents of the right-wing Brazilian leader have asked the ICC to intervene.
Two years ago, a group of Brazilian lawyers and former ministers requested that the court investigate Bolsonaro for allegedly inciting the genocide of indigenous peoples and failing to protect forests and protected lands.
The court’s prosecuting office receives hundreds of such filings each year, detailing alleged crimes around the world.
It is obliged to study all of them and evaluate whether the request falls within the jurisdiction of the court, and if so, whether it entails further investigation or an ongoing investigation by the Prosecution Office.
Activists are pushing for the prosecution of crimes against the environment to be part of the ICC’s core mission.
In June a panel of international lawyers and experts published a proposed legal definition of the crime of “ecology”, stating that “protection for serious environmental harm, already recognized as an international matter” The time has come to expand the Court Establishment Treaty to include. Worry.”
Before Bolsonaro took office in 2019, Brazil’s Amazon had not recorded a year with more than 10,000 sq km of deforestation in a decade.
Between 2009 and 2018, the average per year was 6,500 sq km, while the average during this period was 10,500 sq km bolsonaroPeriod.
But preliminary data released last month by Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research showed deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon declined for the second month in a row in August compared to the same period in 2020.
Weisman, however, insists that Bolsonaro must be held accountable to Amazon communities and the world.
“Our initiative is strongly supported by Brazil, but we do not wish to speak on behalf of any Brazilian community or claim to represent them,” he said.
“Our case aims to add a significant international dimension to their struggle. Amazon is theirs, but we all need it.”
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