Pathways toward Environmental Justice (Session 2 – Spanish)

This webinar, the second session of the Global Justice in Conversation series on environmental justice, explored judicial pathways for achieving environmental accountability. Presented entirely in Spanish and timed for participants in the Americas, Africa, Europe, and the Middle East, the session examined how international and regional courts and tribunals can address the growing environmental crisis.

Event Description

Organized by Citizens for Global Solutions in cooperation with the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law and the World Federalist Movement-Institute for Global Policy, this webinar was part of the ImPACT Coalition on Just Institutions and the International Court of Justice. Panelists examined how, despite widespread recognition of a profound environmental crisis, there have been promising recent developments in seeking accountability for damage to the planet, including advisory opinions and contentious cases before the ICJ and the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, proposals for a new crime of ecocide within the Rome Statute, and seminal precedents in regional court systems.

Key Themes

• Advisory opinions and contentious cases on state responsibility for environmental degradation before the ICJ and ITLOS
• Proposals for a new crime of ecocide to be included within the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court
• Precedent-setting rulings in the Inter-American Court and European Court systems
• Proposals for new judicial institutions, including an International Environmental Court and an International Anti-Corruption Court
• Lessons from the ICJ Environmental Chamber experiment (1993–1996)