Den Haag: a group of climate lawyers named Tuesday for the International Criminal Court to launch an investigation to Brazilian President for the possibility of crimes against humanity on the Amazon policy of his government.
The Allrise Group submitted a global court who accused that the government of Jair Bolsonaro was responsible for “broad attacks on Amazon, his dependents and defenders” which affected the global population.
Calls came less than three weeks before the 26th UN climate change conference, known as COP26, began on October 31 at Glasgow.
The 12th summit is aimed at securing a more ambitious commitment to limit global warming under 2 degrees Celsius with the aim of guarding it to 1.5 degrees Celsius compared to the pre-industrial level.
This event is also focused on mobilizing financing to fight climate change and protect vulnerable communities and natural habitats.
Since serving, Bolsonaro has encouraged the development in Amazon and stopped global complaints about his destruction as a plot to hold Brazilian agribusiness.
His government also weakened environmental authorities and supported the legislative steps to loosen land protection, ventured land robbery.
“The crime against nature is a crime against humanity.
Jazir Bolsonaro triggers the destruction of the Amazon mass with eyes wide open and fully knowledge of the consequences,” said the founder of Allrise Wesemann in a statement.
“The ICC has a clear task to investigate environmental crimes from the global gravity.” This is not the first time the opponent of the right wing of the Brazilian leader has asked the ICC to intervene.
Two years ago, a group of Brazilian lawyers and former ministers requested that the court investigate Bolsonaro for allegedly inciting indigenous people’s genocide and failed to protect the forest and protect the land they live in.
The court prosecution office received hundreds of submissions every year.
, Detailing alleged crimes throughout the world.
It is required to learn them all and evaluate whether demands fall in court jurisdiction and, if it happens, whether it is appropriate for further investigation or inclusion in one of the ongoing probes of prosecution offices.
Activists increasingly encourage the prosecution of the environment to become part of the ICC core mission.
In June, the lawyers and international experts published the proposed legal definition of the crime “ekocida,” said that it was time to extend the agreement of the establishment of the Court to include “protection for serious environmental damage, which has been recognized as an international problem.” Before Bolsonaro served in 2019, Amazon Brazil had not yet recorded a year with more than 10,000 square kilometers of deforestation in more than a decade.
Between 2009 and 2018, the average per year is 6,500 square kilometers compared with an average of 10,500 square kilometers during the term of office of Bolsonaro.
But the preliminary figures released last month by the Brazilian Space Institute for space research showed that the deforestation of Amazon Brazil fell for the second consecutive month in August compared to the same period in 2020.
However, confirms Bolsonaro needs to be accountable for Amazon .
community and for the world.
“Our initiative has strong Brazilian support, but we don’t try to speak on behalf of the Brazilian community, or claim to represent them,” he said.
“Our case aims to add an important international dimension to their struggle.
Amazon is theirs, but it is needed by all of us.”