State Responsibility's Possibility in Ecocide: A Proposal
Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: This paper aims to analyse the potential for a State to be held accountable for Ecocide associated with Climate Change within the established framework of the International Court of Justice and the International Criminal Court. The issue of climate change and the appearance of ecocrime are interesting subjects of study. Climate change has a significant impact not only on the issue of ecology but also on crime, which means that it is the responsibility of the party (both States and Individuals/Corporations). The International Criminal Justice mentions the State's responsibility in climate change, but it needs to be criticised whether the State can be responsible for seeing the appearance of Ecocide in terms of climate change. It is a conceptual article of qualitative research type. The sources of this research process are International Conventions and/or Documents, Law and Regulations. The conceptual and statutes approach is used in the article to analyse the situation. The result of the study shares that there is a need to understand the appearance of the State's responsibility in the context of Climate Change and further elaboration on the possibility of crime appearing as the impact of climate change. It must be understood to shift the paradigm of thinking cross-jurisdictional of both the International Court of Justice and the International Criminal Court.
Institutions: University of Surabaya, Sultan Sharif Ali Islamic University
Language: English
Subfield: Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
Field: Environmental Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W7167609037