Description
This presentation explores how the concept of ecocide is reshaping approaches to environmental accountability at the intersection of armed conflict and climate governance. Drawing on Ukraine’s experience of war-related environmental destruction, it examines how legal and institutional innovations emerging from crisis contexts can inform global debates on criminalizing severe environmental harm. By linking ecocide to broader questions of environmental security, human rights, and climate justice, the paper argues for integrating ecocide prevention and accountability mechanisms into international climate and post-conflict recovery frameworks. Through comparative insights from Ukraine and other regions, it highlights practical pathways toward recognizing ecocide as an international crime and strengthening legal responses to large-scale environmental harm in both wartime and peacetime.
