International / European Environmental Criminal Court: A comment on the proposal of the International Academy of Environmental Sciences

In a speech to the European Parliament's Environmental, Public Health and Food Safety Committee (ENVI Committee) on 14 July 2010, Professor Antonino Abrami, Acting
President of the International Academy of Environmental Sciences (IAES), proposed the creation of two new bodies: a European Environmental Criminal Court, which should
'ensure a coherent European environmental criminal justice system' and, as a next step, an International Environmental Criminal Court, which could stand on its own, or as part of the International Criminal Court, and would have jurisdiction over international environmental disasters. At the request of the ENVI Committee, this paper examines the context and, more importantly, the legal viability and parameters.