Welcome back to part two of this Start Somewhere COP26 Climate Emergency series. Today, I’ll be speaking to the amazing Jojo Mehta, Co-Founder and Executive Director of Stop Ecocide International (SEI). SEI is the driving force behind the growing global movement to make ecocide an international crime.

From oil spills to plastic pollution, to deforestation - we simply can’t talk about the climate crisis without talking about ecocide. Ecocide, the mass damage and destruction of ecosystems, committed repeatedly over decades, has created the climate and ecological emergency that we now face. Thanks to Stop Ecocide’s growing international network and Jojo’s unshakable determination that more and more countries are committing to or considering making ecocide an international crime.

In this episode, we hear about the question Jojo’s daughter asked her that led her to found SEI, how striving for net-zero emissions isn’t enough to create a healthy planet and how recognizing ecocide as an international crime has the potential to accelerate climate action.

Top tip: One. Join our Stop Ecocide community and visit our website www.stopecocide.earth and take action. Two. Talk about Ecocide. It’s a relatively new concept, and once people understand the word they develop an understanding of knowing it’s wrong and people take action. Include Ecocide into your conversation.

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