Mentions:
1: Lennon, Monica (Lab - Central Scotland) a Domestic Legal Framework for Ecocide in Scotland”, which was published by the Environmental Rights - Speech Link
2: Yousaf, Humza (SNP - Glasgow Pollok) The report demonstrates the complexity of considering a standalone criminal offence of ecocide, and it - Speech Link
3: Lennon, Monica (Lab - Central Scotland) that ecocide prevention can make, including by continuing the positive dialogue that I have had with - Speech Link
4: Yousaf, Humza (SNP - Glasgow Pollok) It is important to say that some challenges have been aired in relation to designing a new criminal offence - Speech Link
5: Kidd, Bill (SNP - Glasgow Anniesland) to make it easier for people aged between 18 and 30 in the UK to study and work abroad in the wake of - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Bishop of Manchester (Bshp - Bishops) UK or beyond who wishes to make some stipulation as to where the endowment may or may not be invested - Speech Link
2: Lord Hain (Lab - Life peer) … amounts to an offence, whether under the law of a part of the United Kingdom or any other country - Speech Link
Written Evidence May. 14 2024
Inquiry: Modern Slavery Act 2015Found: The passing of the CSDDD has a huge impact in the UK.
Found: The Bill makes provision s for civil liability, penalties, and a criminal offence for failures to comply
Mentions:
1: Lennon, Monica (Lab - Central Scotland) It is a big issue in the UK—environmentally, it is damaging, and it is expensive. - Speech Link
2: Martin, Gillian (SNP - Aberdeenshire East) officer, and I do not think it appropriate to compel them to do so in relation to a suspected criminal - Speech Link
3: Golden, Maurice (Con - North East Scotland) in the UK and other countries. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Pauline Latham (CON - Mid Derbyshire) Member for Strangford (Jim Shannon) to open the debate, I wish to make a short statement about the sub - Speech Link
2: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) Will the Government recognise that the UK has a vital role in stopping such disasters ever happening - Speech Link
3: Fabian Hamilton (LAB - Leeds North East) It is in south-east Brazil and stretches over 530 miles, which in the UK would be a huge distance, but - Speech Link
4: Fabian Hamilton (LAB - Leeds North East) on an international law on ecocide to make damage to our ecology, our planet and our environment an - Speech Link
Asked by: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green Party - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the decision by the Parliament of Belgium to create an offence of ecocide; and what plans they have to introduce legislation to make ecocide an offence in the UK.
Answered by Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park
We do not currently have plans to introduce such a law in the UK, but we have strengthened regulations in England in recent months to protect the environment. These are enforced by a variety of regulators including the newly-established Office of Environmental Protection, the Environment Agency, Natural England, the Forestry Commission, the Marine Management Organisation, Ofwat, the Drinking Water Inspectorate, local authorities and Defra itself. Many of these regulators are able to seek criminal convictions to punish significant or persistent environmental offending and to create a deterrent against future non-compliance. They also have access to a broader suite of civil sanctions for many of the offences they are responsible for enforcing.
Mar. 30 2022
Source Page: HS2 route-wide injunction proceedingsFound: make them a load of money.
Formal Minutes Nov. 18 2021
Committee: Petitions CommitteeFound: country https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/263579 13 Make ECOCIDE a UK criminal offence https
Mentions:
1: None International Criminal Court, done at Rome on 17th July 1998, to establish a crime of ecocide.(2) In - Speech Link
2: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (GRN - Life peer) the repercussions of ecocide go way beyond those of most criminal acts. - Speech Link
3: None of which called on the Government explicitly to back the creation of ecocide as an offence under the - Speech Link