Symposium on the Use of International Criminal Law to Protect the Environment

Jun 1, 2020 | Kate Mackintosh
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Despite the brief drop in emissions at the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic last month, the climate crisis continues to present one of the greatest threats to humanity, with climate related risks taking the top 5 spots in the World Economic Forum’s 2020 Global Risks Report.  Earlier this year, a group of scholars and practitioners convened at the Promise Institute for Human Rights at UCLA School of Law to consider how international criminal law could be mobilized in the face of this threat, to protect our environment and halt or mitigate climate change. This symposium builds on that meeting in a series of posts that explore issues such as how current and emerging law could be used, what elements a new law might contain, how corporate actors could be included and how current capacity could be strengthened.