Wednesday, 27th September, 16:30 - 18:00 CEST
Online and In-person
at Teknikringen 43, KTH Climate Action Centre, 114 28 Stockholm
Hosted by KTH Climate Action Centre, in collaboration with End Ecocide Sweden
Technology increases the speed and power of human activity, but does not make informed choices about the direction of those activities. How can making mass destruction of nature a crime before the International Criminal Court in the Hague - Ecocide Law – help direct our techno-economic power?
This seminar will discuss how making ecocide a crime can help:
- reach the Paris Agreement
- protect biodiversity
- protect human health
- promote long-term economic stability and global security
- prevent some illegal activities linked to organized crime
SPEAKERS AND PANELISTS:
Kristín Vala Ragnarsdóttir, Professor of Earth Sciences at the University of Iceland.
Kevin Noone, Professor of Chemical Meteorology at the Department of Environmental Science (ACES) at Stockholm University.
Neshan Gunasekera, international lawyer and environmentalist, research fellow with the Raoul Wallenberg Institute.
Elina Eriksson, associate professor and co-lead of the research group Sustainable Futures Lab at KTH.
Jonas Roupé, Chair of Cradlenet, corporate strategist with focus on systemic change.
Jonas Roupé and Kristín Vala Ragnarsdóttir have recently published two research reports: ”Ecocide Law for the Paris Agreement” and ”Ecocide Law for an Economy within Planetary Boundaries”. Jonas Roupé is also the author of “Artificial Intelligence in Service to Life on Earth – Ecocide Law as a Framework for Governance”. Elina Eriksson is co-author of the report “Computing as Ecocide”.