<p>According to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, adopted in July 1998, for crimes against humanity are understood all acts with the connotation of serious and inhuman, whose nature offends and affects humanity in general. Thus, the Statute includes in article 7 the crimes that are accepted today as crimes against humanity, including genocide, slavery, war crimes or the crime of aggression, where protection and sanctions are sought of certain deviant behaviors that, by their nature, require a more accentuated treatment than those that have been given to common crimes. Agreeing with the mentioned before, this work aims to illustrate the possibility of implementing high-impact environmental damage as a crime against humanity, based on the criteria and interpretations that impel an alleged fact as a crime of this nature, having as a fundamental basis the importance of protecting the environment, as an inherent right of the human being.</p>