Moderator:
Thomas Obel Hansen - Maria Zambrano Distinguished Researcher, Universidad
Carlos III de Madrid; Senior Lecturer in Law, Ulster University

Presentations:
- “The need for an ecocide crime - Perspectives from Stop Ecocide campaign”, Jojo
Mehta - Executive Director of Stop Ecocide International and Chair of Stop Ecocide
Foundation
- “ILC draft principles and ecocide”, Concepción Escobar - Professor of Public
International Law, UNED; Director of the Center of Studies of IHL, Spanish Red
Cross; Former Member and Special Rapporteur of the UN International Law
Commission; Former Head of the International Law Department of the Spanish
MFA
- “State perspectives on the need for an ecocide crime”, Mr. Ambassador Georges
Maniuri - Vanuatu’s Ambassador to Europe
- “Frontiers in green finance disclosure”, Chidi Oti Obihara - Senior fellow for
climate finance with Drawdown Labs; Senior Advisor at SBTi
- “Towards a holistic consideration of crimes against nature committed in times of
armed conflict”, Montserrat Abad Castelos - Professor of Public International
Law at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid; Co-director of the ICEL’s International
Secretariat; Co-Principal investigator of the Project Making Peace with Nature
and Making Nature a Key for Peace [PaxNatura, Part I])