Valérie Cabanes

Valérie Cabanes (born 1969) is a French lawyer and environmentalist. She is noted as a proponent of the idea of ecocide as a new crime under international law.

Life Cabanes was born in Pont-l'Abbé in Brittany in 1969. From 2006 to 2012, she was involved in defending the rights of indigenous peoples in Canada and Brazil, producing reports that were debated at the United Nations Human Rights Council and the European Parliament.

She became a lawyer specialising in international law. In her opinion, an international crime of ecocide could be used to dissolve companies who endangering our planet of to bring the heads of companies to account.

In 2018 she joined a legal team who sued the government of France for not dealing with climate change as quickly as they should.

Cabanes was one of the founders of the group End Ecocide on Earth.