Initiatives

International Conference on Environmental Crime (Rome 2012)

UNICRI and UNEP, in partnership with the Italian Ministry for the Environment and the Italian Ministry of Justice, organised an International Conference on Environmental Crime. The Conference took place at the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) Headquarters in Rome on 29-30 October 2012 with the support of Compagnia di San …

International Consortium on Combating Wildlife Crime (ICCWC)

The ICCWC is the collaborative effort by five inter-governmental organisations working to bring coordinated support to the national wildlife law enforcement agencies and to the sub-regional and regional networks that act in defence of natural resources. The mission of ICCWC is to usher in a new era where perpetrators of …

INTERPOL - Project Clean Seas

Project Clean Seas aims to conserve cleaner and safer marine environments. Having produced a manual on investigating vessel pollution in 2007, this project has recently developed and delivered a law enforcement training course using the manual as a guide. The pilot course in Canada (June 2010) was followed by four …

INTERPOL - Project Eden

INTERPOL ’ s Project Eden, targeting the illegal trade and disposal of waste, has been officially launched during the INTERPOL Environmental Compliance and Enforcement events in Kenya. Through Project Eden, INTERPOL aims to raise the profile of this transnational crime which in addition to threatening the quality of the global environment …

INTERPOL - Project Scale

Project Scale is an INTERPOL project to support member countries in identifying, deterring and disrupting transnational fisheries crime. The project was launched during the 1st INTERPOL International Fisheries Enforcement Conference on 26 February 2013 at the INTERPOL General Secretariat in Lyon, France. The Conference was followed by the first meeting …

INTERPOL - Project Wisdom

In 1990, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) introduced a ban on international ivory sales, as from 1979 to 1989 the worldwide demand for ivory caused elephant populations to decline to dangerously low levels, and the trade of illegal ivory continues. In addition, rhinoceros poaching in Africa …

INTERPOL – Project LEAF

Project LEAF ( Law Enforcement Assistance for Forests) is a consortium forests and climate initiative on combating illegal logging and organised forest crime. The project is led by the INTERPOL Environmental Crime Programme and the United Nations Environment Programme ’ s (UNEP) centre in Norway (UNEP GRID-Arendal), with financial support from the …

ITTO - Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (TFLET)

The general objective of this Thematic Programme is to improve national forest law enforcement and governance in tropical ITTO member countries in order to enhance and diversify international trade in tropical timber from sustainably managed forests and to help alleviate poverty in those countries. The strategy to reach the objective …

OECD Control System

Control of Transboundary Movements of Wastes Destined for Recovery Operations

The OECD Council approved on 13 February 2013 the Opinion of the Environment Policy Committee regarding the compliance by Israel with Decision C(2001)107/FINAL which establishes the Control system for waste destined for recovery. The OECD Control System is based on two types of control procedures: Green Control …

The Program on Forests (PROFOR)

The Program on Forests (PROFOR) was created in 1997 to support in-depth analysis, innovative processes and knowledge-sharing and dialogue, in the belief that sound forest policy can lead to better outcomes on issues ranging from livelihoods and financing, to illegal logging, biodiversity and climate change. Since 2002, the program has …