Kate Mackintosh

Creator

Kate Mackintosh

Kate Mackintosh is executive director of the Promise Institute for Human Rights at the University of California

Mass death: Tonnes of herring inexplicably washed up on a beach in Norway in 2012. Criminalising ecocide would restrict severe and wanton environmental destruction if countries ratify it. (Jan Petter Jørgensen/AFP/Getty)

CLIMATE COUNSEL

It’s time to add ecocide to the list of international crimes

An international panel of lawyers is asking the International Criminal Court to do just that

Kate Mackintosh
Jojo Mehta
Richard Rogers