Webinar: An Introduction to Environmental Crime

All organisational and individual members of the IAP are invited to join us for a webinar organised jointly by the International Association of Prosecutors Global Training Academy and the United Nations Environment Programme on An Introduction to Environmental Crime.

The UN Environment Programme is the global authority that sets the environmental agenda and promotes the coherent implementation of the environmental dimensions of sustainable development with the UN system. This webinar will assist prosecutors to increase their knowledge of environmental crimes and to better understand the convergence between environmental crimes and other forms of criminal activity. It will also highlight the importance of networks and the need for close collaboration between law enforcement and prosecutors to tackle this crime type.

Webinar:            An Introduction to Environmental Crime
Date / time:       Wednesday 20 March 2024, 13:30 hrs Central European Time (CET)

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Speakers:

1. Sallie Yang, Programme Management Officer, Montevideo Coordination and Delivery Unit, Law Division, UN Environment Programme
Presentation Title:  MEAs and Environmental Crime.

2. Riikka Puttonen, Programme Manager on the global programme on implementation of the Organised Crime Convention, Organised Crime Branch, UNODC
Presentation Title:  Organised criminal groups and environmental crime.

3. Michele Viale, Operations Coordinator Pollution and Illegal Mining, Illicit Markets Sub-Directorate, Environmental Security, Interpol
Presentation Title:  The nexus between organised crime and pollution crime.

4. Rob de Rijck, National Coordinating Prosecutor for Environmental Crime, Netherlands, and Vice-President, European Network of Prosecutors for the Environment (ENPE)
Presentation Title:  Networks are a necessity.

Facilitator: Shenaz Muzaffer, General Counsel, International Association of Prosecutors

This one-hour webinar will be held in English and no interpretation will be provided. All attendees will receive a certificate of attendance. The webinar is open to all IAP organisational and individual members.

This webinar is the first of two webinars that have been jointly developed between the IAP and the UNEP. The second webinar on An Operational Perspective on Prosecuting Environmental Crime will take place on 24 April 2024. Details will be circulated in due course.

For more information, please contact Ms. Irina Beridze, Executive Programme Manager of the IAP, at epm@iap-association.org.