The Criminal Safeguarding of the Environment and its Contribution to Realizing Sustainable Development

Abstract

Today, the environment and the planet's many species are facing an unparalleled threat, making the lives of societies vulnerable to significant threats to their existence. This has necessitated the need to protect the environment from such threats by codifying the criminalization of all environmentally harmful behaviours as well as other types of protection. This paper, entitled "Criminal protection of the environment and its contribution to sustainable development", is an attempt to capture aspects of criminal protection of the environment and its impact on sustainable development by addressing the role of domestic laws and international treaties in reducing environmental degradation. The study concluded with several recommendations, the environment for the future is vital to the survival and well-being of the global community and to preventing ecocide under the pretext of implementing sustainable development goals. There is an urgent need to protect the environment more effectively by punishing those who hurt it and the need to legalize it. Acts of ecocide as an international crime.