{"id":3177,"date":"2013-04-28T15:00:19","date_gmt":"2013-04-28T15:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.endecocide.eu\/?p=3177"},"modified":"2013-04-28T15:00:19","modified_gmt":"2013-04-28T15:00:19","slug":"environment-murder-preventers-meet-tallinn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.endecocide.org\/en\/2013\/04\/28\/environment-murder-preventers-meet-tallinn\/","title":{"rendered":"Environment-murder \u2013 Preventers meet in Tallinn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Rainer N\u00f5lvak<\/strong>, the chief motivator of the \u2019Let\u2019s do it!\u2019 campaign and <strong>Polly Higgins<\/strong>, advocate for the recognition of ecocide as a crime against peace, will discuss on how to end the extensive damage of natural environments occurring in many regions of the world in Tallinn, Estonia on<strong> May 4th.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Rainer N\u00f5lvak: \u2019I thought large scale ecosystem destruction was outlawed internationally years ago. Turns out, it is not! Let\u2019s make this thing of the past!\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u2019Let\u2019s Do It!\u2019 and \u2019Eradicating Ecocide\u2019 campaigns have in common the vision of a clean and healthy environment. \u2019Let\u2019s do it!\u2019 has become a global world clean-up movement, but what can be done in countries, where polluting is still legal? That\u2019s where criminalisation of ecocide and \u2019Let\u2019s Do It!\u2019 meet: can citizens\u2019 initiatives change the system itself wherein states and businesses and also citizens transact?<\/p>\n<p>If the fault is in the system, could banning ecocide help to change it? What would make the polluting corporations change their course of action? What are the steps we need to take\u00a0 to move towards a healthier planet?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Polly Higgins<\/strong> is a British lawyer, author and visionary, who is leading an international campaign, which aims to include ecocide as the fifth crime against peace that would in essence place environmental crimes alongside war crimes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rainer N\u00f5lvak<\/strong> is a visionary from Estonia, the initiator and chief motivator of the \u2019Let\u2019s Do It!\u2019 movement. In 2012 his team helped to initiate clean-up actions in almost 100 countries all over the world, involving around 7 million volunteers.<\/p>\n<p>The discussion on May 4th will be held in English.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about the event:<br \/>\nKadri Kalle<br \/>\nEuropean Citizens\u2019 Initiative \u201eEnd Ecocide in Europe\u201c<br \/>\nEstonian coordinator<br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:info@endecocide.eu\">info@endecocide.eu<\/a><br \/>\n+3725072549<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rainer N\u00f5lvak, the chief motivator of the \u2019Let\u2019s do it!\u2019 campaign and Polly Higgins, advocate for the recognition of ecocide as a crime against peace, will discuss on how to end the extensive damage of natural environments occurring in many regions of the world in Tallinn, Estonia on May 4th. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.endecocide.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.endecocide.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.endecocide.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.endecocide.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.endecocide.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.endecocide.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.endecocide.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.endecocide.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.endecocide.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}