Platform - Green Party US Section III. Ecological Sustainability N. International Environmental Policy GPUS believes that an international agreement should be reached which sets
- an executable and enforceable framework for keeping Earth well within its 7 measurable planetary boundaries (currently including climate change, biosphere integrity, land-system change, freshwater use, biogeochemical flows, ocean acidification, and stratospheric ozone depletion)
- an executable and enforceable framework for the designation of at least 50% of the planet as a nature reserve and
- international protections, funding, and legal personhood to large swaths of wildlands like the Brazilian Amazon and Nile River, including rivers longer than 1,500 km and wildlands larger than 1,000,000 acres.
GPUS supports the addition of the crime of ecocide to the Rome Statute which created and empowers the International Criminal Court.
The definition drafted by a team of lawyers commissioned by the Stop Ecocide Foundation should be taken as a starting point, with refinements added to hold corporations and governments accountable for ecocide committed by their individual agents.
GPUS calls on the US and the international community to adopt and enforce strong language on defining ecocide, and vigorous and comprehensive enforcement of that language.