The Intersectional Ecocide Tribunal
FT Global Gallery - COP26 Edition - livestreamed over the duration of COP26
The Intersectional Ecocide Tribunal was commissioned by the FT Global Gallery - COP26 Edition, as a livestreamed performance over the duration of COP26. Generated by the public through sonifying Twitter, a sound within the IET was a charge against our world leaders for crimes against nature, but also an expression of resilience from those who experience climate change as something that compounds existing structures of injustice.
"The IET proposes a space where ecocide has been adopted as an international crime, where those committing ecocide are brought to account, and where climate justice is synonymous with social justice. Participants are invited to see and hear their messages become part of the Tribunal, by tweeting the full name of their world leader of choice, their message, and any of the following words: "COP26", "Ecocide", 'Climate Change", and "Climate Justice"."
Composed and produced by Jamie Perera
Sonification programming and data visualisation by Adrian Lewis
Duration: 14 days, from 31st October - 13th November 2021
Sonification information:
World leader Inclusion Criteria:
Historical responsibility for climate change - https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-which-countries-are-historically-responsible-for-climate-change
Per Population / per capita (excluding those already mentioned) - https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-which-countries-are-historically-responsible-for-climate-change
Insufficient on Climate Action (excluding those already mentioned) - https://climateactiontracker.org/countries/
Most Polluted Countries in the world (excluding those already mentioned) - https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/most-polluted-countries
Marginalised Communities and Intersections Inclusion Criteria:
Minority and Indigenous Trends 2019 Focus on climate justice - https://minorityrights.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/2019_MR_Report_170x240_V7_WEB.pdf
Climate change and indigenous peoples - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change_and_indigenous_peoples
Indigenous Peoples and Climate Change: 3 Things to Know - https://www.nrdc.org/experts/maria-martinez/indigenous-peoples-and-climate-change-3-things-know
The Impact of Climate Change on Minorities and Indigenous Peoples - https://minorityrights.org/wp-content/uploads/old-site-downloads/download-524-The-Impact-of-Climate-Change-on-Minorities-and-Indigenous-Peoples.pdf
Climate change: Low-income countries 'can't keep up' with impacts - https://www.bbc.com/news/world-58080083
First Peoples’ Convening on Climate-Forced Displacement - https://www.uusc.org/initiatives/first-peoples-convening-on-climate-forced-displacement/
Climate Change in Alaska - https://www.uusc.org/alaska-climate-change-impacts/
Climate Change in Bangladesh - https://www.uusc.org/climate-change-in-bangladesh/
Climate Change in the Pacific Islands - https://www.uusc.org/climate-change-in-the-pacific-islands/
Climate Change in Louisiana - https://www.uusc.org/climate-change-in-louisiana/
Climate Change in Washington State - https://www.uusc.org/climate-change-in-washington-state/
The Climate Crisis Is Global, but These 6 Places Face the Most Severe Consequences - https://time.com/5687470/cities-countries-most-affected-by-climate-change/
UN List of Least Developed Countries (as of 11 February 2021) - https://www.un.org/development/desa/dpad/wp-content/uploads/sites/45/publication/ldc_list.pdf
Selected world leaders and marginalised communities:
| World Leaders in the Tribunal | Marginalised Communities and Intersections |
|---|---|
| Abdelmadjid Tebboune (Algeria) | Aboriginal community (Northern Territory, Australia) |
| Alberto Fernandez (Argentina) | African American community, Bloomfield New Jersey (North America) |
| Nikol Pashinyan (Armenia) | Afro-descendants (Colombia) |
| Scott Morrison (Australia) | Agro Pastoralist (North Kenya) |
| Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa (Bahrain) | Amazon Indigenous community (Brazil) |
| Abdul Hamid (Bangladesh) | Arara community (Brazil) |
| Alexander Lukashenko (Belarus) | Bacha Bazi – dancing boy community (Afghanistan) |
| Alexander De Croo (Belgium) | Baiga Adivasis of Chhattisgarh (India) |
| Luis Arce (Bolivia) | Batwa community (Uganda) |
| Marinko Cavara (Bosnia And Herzegovina) | Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw Tribe (South Louisiana Marsh) |
| Jair Bolsonaro (Brazil) | Canovanas resident (Puerto Rico) |
| Rumen Radev (Bulgaria) | Carteret Islands resident (Papa New Guinea) |
| Hun Sen (Cambodia) | Conaie Amazon community (Ecuador) |
| Justin Trudeau (Canada) | Dalit community (India) |
| Sebastian Pinera (Chile) | Endorois community (Kenya) |
| Xing Ping (China) | Fisherfolk Coastal area (Philippines) |
| Zhao Yingmin (China) | Fulani community (Niger) |
| Xie Zhenhua (China) | Funafuti Resident (Tuvalu) |
| Ivan Duque Marquez (Colombia) | Golovin community (Alaska) |
| Carlos Alvarado Quesada (Costa Rica) | Houma Tribe, Isle de Jean Charles, Louisiana (North America) |
| Alassane Ouattara (Cote d'Ivoire) | Indigenous Amazon (Brazil) |
| Andrej Plenkovic (Croatia) | Indigenous community (Vanuatu) |
| Nicos Anastasiades (Cyprus) | Indigenous Island Residents (Samoa) |
| Milos Zeman (Czechia) | Inuit, Pangnirtung community (Canada) |
| Mette Frederiksen (Denmark) | Iñupiat community (Alaska) |
| Alar Karis (Estonia) | Island resident (Barbuda) |
| Abiy Ahmed (Ethiopia) | Island resident (Fiji) |
| Sanna Marin (Finland) | Island resident (Kiribati) |
| Emmanuel Macron (France) | Island resident (Marshal Islands) |
| Ali Bongo Ondimba (Gabon) | Island Resident (Solomon Islands) |
|---|---|
| Irakli Garibashvili (Georgia) | Islanders (Vanuatu) |
| Angela Merkel (Germany) | Jakarta Rukun Warga community (Indonesia) |
| Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo (Ghana) | Ju|’hoansi of the Nyae Nyae Conservancy (Namibia) |
| Katerina Sakellaropoulou (Greece) | Juruna community (Brazil) |
| Alejandro Giammattei (Guatemala) | Kalinago Tribe (Dominica) |
| Carrie Lam (Hong Kong) | Karamojong community (Uganda) |
| Narendra Modi (India) | Karen Villager (Myanmar) |
| Joko Widodo (Indonesia) | Kasese Resident Rwenzori |
| Ebrahim Raisi (Iran) | Kayapó community (Brazil) |
| Naftali Bennett (Israel) | Kichwa community (Ecuador) |
| Mario Draghi (Italy) | LGBTQ+ community (Philippines) |
| Fumio Kishida (Japan) | LGBTQ+ community Lagos (Nigeria) |
| Bisher Al-Khasawneh (Jordan) | LGBTQ+ Community New Orleans (North America) |
| Kassym-Jomart Tokayev (Kazakhstan) | Lumad community (Phillipenes) |
| Uhuru Kenyatta (Kenya) | M’Baka people (Democratic Republic of the Congo) |
| Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah (Kuwait) | Marsh Arabs (Iraq) |
| Sadyr Japarov (Kyrgyzstan) | Mayangna community (Nicaragua) |
| Thongloun Sisoulith (Laos) | Mbororo tribes (Chad) |
| Gitanas Nauseda (Lithuania) | Mhamid community (Morocco) |
| Ho Iat-seng (Macau) | Migrant worker California (North America) |
| Ismail Sabri Yaakob (Malaysia) | Miskitu community (Nicaragua) |
| Andres Manuel (Mexico) | Muslim community (India) |
| Ukhnaagiin Khurelsukh (Mongolia) | Nakna Resident (Bangladesh) |
| Mohammed VI (Morocco) | Nenet community (Russia) |
| Sher Bahadur Deuba (Nepal) | Ngäbe-Buglé people (Panama) |
| Jacinda Ardern (New Zealand) | Nomadic community (Tibet) |
| Daniel Ortega (Nicaragua) | Nuevo Saposoa Amazon Indigenous community (Peru) |
| Muhammadu Buhari (Nigeria) | Nyangatom Tribe (Ethiopia) |
| Zoran Zaev (North Macedonia) | Orodmel village resident (Palau) |
| Erna Solberg (Norway) | Palestinian Olive Farmer, Gaza (Palestine) |
|---|---|
| Imran Khan (Pakistan) | Pastoral herdists (Mongolia) |
| Mario Abdo Benitez (Paraguay) | Quechua, Hatun Q'ero (Peruvian Andes) |
| Pedro Castillo (Peru) | Quinhagak community (Alaska) |
| Andrzej Duda (Poland) | Rama community (Nicaragua) |
| Sheikh Tamim (Qatar) | Río Gualcarque community (Honduras) |
| Felix Tshisekedi (Republic of Congo) | Roma community, Sliven (Bulgaria) |
| Klaus Iohannis (Romania) | Rural South (Angola) |
| Vladimir Putin (Russia) | Salar de Uyuni resident (Bolivia) |
| Mohammed bin Salman (Saudi Arabia) | Sama-Bajau people (Malaysia, Indonesia, Phillipenes) |
| Nicola Sturgeon (Scotland) | Sami community (Finland) |
| Aleksandar Vucic (Serbia) | San Pedro de Atacama residents (Chile) |
| Lee Kuan Yew (Singapore) | Satkhira resident (Bangladesh) |
| Cyril Ramaphosa (South Africa) | Savoonga community (Alaska) |
| Moon Jae-in (South Korea) | Secwepemc community (Canada) |
| Pedro Sánchez (Spain) | Sengwer community (Kenya) |
| Gotabaya Rajapaksa (Sri Lanka) | Shawi community, Balsapuerto (Peru) |
| Stefan Lofven (Sweden) | Shyamnagar Resident (Bangladesh) |
| Guy Parmelin (Switzerland) | Socotra resident (Yemen) |
| Bashar al-Assad (Syria) | Standing Rock Native American community (North America) |
| Chuan Leekpai (Thailand) | Torres Strait Islander (Australia) |
| Paula-Mae Weekes (Trinidad and Tobago) | Trans Aboriginal community (Australia) |
| Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (Turkey) | Transgender community (Antigua) |
| Yoweri Kaguta Museveni (Uganda) | Transgender community (Haiti) |
| Boris Johnson (UK) | Transgender community (Pakistan) |
| Volodymyr Zelensky (Ukraine) | Tres Pozos Sanctuary (Argentina) |
| Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan (United Arab Emirates) | Turkana County community (Kenya) |
| Joe Biden (USA) | Unalakleet community (Alaska) |
| Shavkat Mirziyoyev (Uzbekistan) | Unalakleet community (Alaska) |
| Nguyen Xuan Phuc (Vietnam) | Uru-Murato community (Bolivia) |
| Hakainde Hichilema (Zambia) | Uyghur community (China) |
|---|---|
| Vunisavisavi Resident | |
| Wetʼsuwetʼen First Nation community (Canada) | |
| Xikrin community women (Brazil) | |
| Yup’ik community (Alaska) |