Scottish Environment LINK (SS 237475669) summarised the joint response which favours adopting the approach taken by the EU as opposed to the definition favoured by Stop Ecocide International: LINK supports learning from the current EU work on defining ecocide, including the ELI Report on Ecocide (ELI, 2023) and drawing from the definition of qualified offences or ‘cases comparable to ecocide’ used 31 by the European Council and European Parliament in the revised Environmental Crime Directive: ‘offences referred to in Article 3(2), are considered a qualified offence if they cause destruction of, or widespread and substantial damage, which is either irreversible or long-lasting, to an ecosystem of considerable size or environmental value, or to a habitat within a protected site, or to the quality of air, the quality of soil, or the quality of water (3(2a))’ (Article 3(2a), p...