'ecocide'
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Vanuatu, Fiji and Samoa have formally presented a proposal to the world's highest court this week, asking for an amendment to its principle treaty to include a crime of ecocide.
Vanuatu's special envoy for climate change Ralp Regenvanu said they were the first nation to...

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