Panel 2: Accountability and Repair

The second panel, Accountability and Repair: Defining Justice for the Crime of Ecocide, was chaired by 张煦晨 Xuchen Zhang, Legal Advisor at UCLA Law's The Promise Institute for Human Rights (Europe).

The discussion explored the legal complexities of ecocide, including how different applications of mens rea could impact specific cases, and how intent and sentencing might be approached in practice.

Drawing on examples such as the Alberta oil sands, the panel also raised critical questions about justice, exclusion, and the need to challenge the meaning of anthropocentric and ecocentric interpretations of the proposed definition.