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✍️ A proposed bill in Scotland aims to criminalize environmental destruction, making it a crime punishable by jail terms or fines, with over 50 MSPs supporting the initiative.
👉 Company directors could face jail terms or fines for causing severe or reckless damage to nature
👉 The bill would put environmental destruction on a similar legal footing to other grave crimes such as murder
👉 Over 50 MSPs from all major parties in the Scottish parliament have supported the bill
👉 The bill aims to bring Scotland in line with the EU's environmental crime directive and other countries that have taken similar steps
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New ecocide bill in Scottish parliament aims to criminalise environmental destruction in line with EU directiveCompany directors who cause severe or reckless damage to nature could face jail terms or hefty fines under a bill that aims to criminalise environmental destruction in Scotland.The proposed law, which would be the first of its kind in the UK, is designed to put a class of environment offences known as ecocide on a similar legal footing to other grave crimes such as murder. Continue reading...
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/may/29/company-directors-who-cause-nature-damage-in-scotland-could-face-jail