On 18 July 2024, ECO-SOLVE hosted a strategic expert dialogue to address the increasingly urgent and pressing issues resulting from environmental crimes. The event gathered a diverse group of experts to discuss how to strengthen multilateral responses to environmental crime, focusing on the intersection of organised crime, environmental degradation, as well as security, development, and…
From 6-10 May 2024, the ECO-SOLVE team undertook a scoping mission across Brazil, including visits to São Paulo, Brasília and Belém. It focused on identifying and establishing connections with local organisations, government departments, and community groups to understand the intricate dynamics of illicit activities threatening the Amazon Basin rainforest. The initial meetings in São Paulo…
On 20 March 2024, the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime (GI-TOC) launched ECO-SOLVE, a global EU-funded programme aimed at disrupting illicit environmental flows, at an event in Brussels. This three-year project, part of the Global Illicit Flows Programme (GIFP), aims to effectively monitor the online trade, extract useful and digestible data that can inform…
On February 29, 2024, the second regional consultation on ‘Exposing Elite Protection and Corruption in Environmental Crime in Southeast Asia and Oceania’ was hosted in Bangkok, Thailand, as part of the ECO-SOLVE project. The consultation was introduced by Louise Taylor, Asia-Pacific Representative of the GI-TOC and officially opened by Andreas Roettger on behalf of the…
On 23 November 2023, the first expert regional consultation on ‘exposing elite protection and corruption in environmental crime’ was organized as part of the global GIFP action ECO-SOLVE. The event was held in person at the Radisson Blu Upperhill in Nairobi, Kenya with additional participants from the EU and the GI-TOC ECO-SOLVE project team joining…
The GIFP action ECO-SOLVE was unveiled as one of the EU’s new external action initiatives for tackling wildlife crime at the Global Initiative against Transnational Organised Crime (GI-TOC)’s “Data and Wildlife Crime” side event on the margins of CITES 77th Standing Committee in Geneva, Switzerland, on 9 November 2023. In 2022, the European Commission tasked…
