User:John Cummings/Articles/Jojo Mehta

Jojo Mehta is a British lawyer and campaigner, she is the CEO and co-founder of Stop Ecocide International. She co-founded Stop Ecocide in 2017 with barrister Polly Higgins, to support ecocide becoming the fifth crime at the International Criminal Court. She is Chair of the Stop Ecocide Foundation as well as the convenor of the Independent Expert Panel for the Legal Definition of Ecocide.

Jojo is a graduate of University of Oxford and Goldsmiths, University of London.

Before founding Stop Ecocide International she worked in communications, entrepreneurship and wider environmental campaigning.

"We believe that a law like this actually will have to come into play at some point. All we're trying to do is accelerate that point in order to protect humanity."

Jojo has written for ???

https://diem25.org/legally-protecting-nature-the-power-recognising-ecocide/

https://www.desmog.com/2023/12/08/stop-ecocide-jojo-mehta-cop28-criminal-law-climate-consciousness-summit-2023/

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/nov/17/eu-criminalises-environmental-damage-comparable-to-ecocide

Mehta has stated she beleives that the crime of ecocide ???? “Indeed, I have no doubt that with this direction of travel being rapidly established, it is only a matter of time before ecocide is recognised in criminal law at every level.”


 * https://www.thecooldown.com/green-business/staples-electronics-recycling-program-rewards/
 * https://theecologist.org/2021/nov/11/ecocide-law-will-come-faster-expected
 * https://factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com.34HC7GU
 * https://www.euronews.com/2023/08/09/the-planet-can-only-be-protected-from-short-sighted-politics-by-criminalising-ecocide
 * https://www.earthisland.org/journal/index.php/magazine/entry/jojo-mehta-criminalizing-ecocide/

Short interview or statement in articles about the topic of ecocide law, while they're not full interviews the jounralist has spoken to her as a subject matter expert, many of the articles include an image of her as she is a signifcant part of the article.


 * https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/21/sunday-review/bolsonaro-amazon-fire.html
 * https://www.theguardian.com/law/2020/nov/30/international-lawyers-draft-plan-to-criminalise-ecosystem-destruction
 * https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/aug/26/growing-number-of-countries-consider-making-ecocide-crime
 * https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/sep/26/activists-push-make-ecocide-international-crime
 * https://www.reuters.com/business/sustainable-business/society-watch-drive-make-ecocide-an-international-crime-gains-momentum-2023-02-20/
 * https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politics/climate-criminals-face-twenty-years-31383138
 * https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/19629824.crime-ecocide-enshrined-law/
 * https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/23910341.msp-behind-scary-scottish-ecocide-law-says-hopes-never-used/
 * https://insideclimatenews.org/news/22062021/ecocide-definition-panel-international-crime/
 * https://insideclimatenews.org/news/23112023/eu-sets-new-environmental-crimes-ecocide/
 * https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/nov/17/eu-criminalises-environmental-damage-comparable-to-ecocide
 * https://stroudtimes.com/campaigner-and-her-mule-head-to-stroud-on-final-leg-of-epic-journey/
 * https://www.euractiv.com/section/energy-environment/news/parliament-adds-ecocide-to-eus-draft-list-of-environmental-crimes/
 * https://environmentjournal.online/climate-change/camden-becomes-first-uk-council-to-endorse-ecocide-laws/
 * https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/22/how-a-growing-movement-plans-to-put-ecocide-on-a-par-with-war-crimes.html
 * https://theecologist.org/2023/jul/05/protecting-heart-earth-ecocide
 * https://www.aptnnews.ca/national-news/criminalize-ecocide-cross-party-members-of-parliament-join-in-talks-to-declare-widespread-environmental-destruction-an-international-crime/

Articles by her published in reliable sources
 * https://diem25.org/legally-protecting-nature-the-power-recognising-ecocide/ writing in ??
 * https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/momentum-new-ecocide-law-scotland-30737565
 * https://www.civicus.org/index.php/media-resources/news/interviews/4901-ecocide-perpetrators-of-environmental-destruction-should-be-prosecuted-just-like-war-criminals-are
 * https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/sep/26/activists-push-make-ecocide-international-crime


 * https://www.euronews.com/2023/08/09/the-planet-can-only-be-protected-from-short-sighted-politics-by-criminalising-ecocide
 * https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/feb/24/climate-crisis-ecocide-international-crime
 * https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/apr/25/polly-higgins-obituary

Thanks very much

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