BUSINESS AND FINANCE OPEN LETTER
Business, finance and governments have a unique opportunity to respond to climate and ecological collapse.
By acting together now to hold those responsible for unlawful or wanton destructive practices to account, we can create better and fairer ways of doing business that are firmly supported by international legal frameworks.
ENDORSING BUSINESSES AND FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS INCLUDE:
NEWS / KEY PUBLICATIONS
ECOCIDE LAW IS A “GAME-CHANGER” FOR BOARD DIRECTORS, SAYS INVESTOR NETWORK
A new policy “viewpoint” document Biodiversity as Systemic Risk: 10 Game-Changers for Board Directors and Stewardship Teams has been released by the International Corporate Governance Network (ICGN), highlighting the criminalisation of ecocide as an essential emerging framework.
RACE TO ZERO ACKNOWLEDGES ECOCIDE LAW AS KEY DRIVER FOR CLIMATE ACTION
Ecocide law has been significantly highlighted in the recent Race 2 Zero "Pivot Point" report on the importance of moving from voluntary to regulatory measures to accelerate climate action.
The report, launched to great fanfare during New York Climate Week and the high-level week of the UN General Assembly, at the Climate Action: Race to Zero and Race to Resilience Forum where COP26 and COP27 Climate Champions.
It features a significant section on ecocide law as a "driver and influencer" in this process - see Chapter 7 section (c) of the report (p58).