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1/ The fast-growing call to criminalize #ecocide is now beginning to be heard in the halls of the #UnitedNations! It surfaced in the high level speeches at #UNEA, at the Youth Environmental Assembly and the Global Major Groups & Stakeholders Forum. stopecocide.earth/new-breaking-n… #UNEP
2/ Ecocide was mentioned in two key speeches: by #UNEA5 President, Norwegian Minister of Climate & Environment Mr. @EspenBarthEide & by Inger Anderson, Executive Director of @UNEP. Both recalled Olof Palme, Swedish Prime Minister, first using #ecocide in 1972 at the first #UNEA.
3/ #Ecocide is mentioned in the preamble of the statement of the Global Major Groups & Stakeholders Forum, acknowledging that “adding ecocide as the fifth crime to the #RomeStatute of the ICC would have a strong preventive effect on destructive actions.”
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Bis zu 150 Millionen Tonnen.

Plastikmüll.

In unseren Meeren.

Das ist die traurige, dramatische Realität.

Unsere heute veröffentlichte Metastudie offenbart das Ausmaß der planetaren #Plastikrise. Die wichtigsten Erkenntnisse - THREAD!
Wie ein Flächenbrand hat sich Plastik ausgebreitet bis in den tiefsten Tiefseegraben, ins arktische Eis, in die kleinsten Lebewesen der Ozeane. Und es gibt kein Zurück:

Die Plastikverschmutzung der Meere wächst exponentiell. Und sie ist nicht umkehrbar.
Wir kriegen das Gift da nicht mehr raus. Die #Plastikkrise bedroht Tiere, Arten, Ökosysteme. Fast alle untersuchten Tiere sind von Plastik betroffen. Und in Gebieten wie dem Gelben oder dem Mittelmeer sind kritische Mikroplastik-Schwellenwerte schon jetzt überschritten.
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