title: The Path of Ecocide as an International Crime
abstract: This chapter examines the ambitious, yet complex, effort to elevate ecocide to the status of an international crime within the Rome Statute. Despite growing consensus on the necessity of prosecuting massive environmental destruction, formidable obstacles persist: fragmented legal traditions, geopolitical tensions, and conceptual vagueness. The proposed amendment by the Stop Ecocide Foundation reveals progress, but also compromise—defining ecocide as unlawful or reckless acts with catastrophic co