What action is the EU taking to curb environmental crime? The EU has taken action to combat criminal networks involved in all forms of environmental crime, including by introducing rules on waste ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Primary forest loss across the Amazon Basin since 2002. At the center of government-led efforts to reduce deforestation are measures to protect and ...

Germany's Federal Environment Ministry funds first ever project with INTERPOL through its International Climate Initiative. 16 January, 2025 - The Federal Environment Ministry (BMUV) of Germany is ...

Environmental organized crime is a massive global enterprise, bringing in hundreds of billions of dollars each year — and the U.S. financial system appears to be helping conceal its profits. Interpol ...

Between June 23 and July 6, 2025, police forces from Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru joined forces in a cross-border law enforcement initiative targeting environmental crimes like illegal mining, ...

BERLIN, Germany, February 16, 2025 (ENS) – With new funding, Germany’s Environment Ministry, the nonprofit WWF Germany, and the international police force Interpol are joining forces to stop criminals ...

Environmental crime has surged into a multibillion-dollar global industry, ranking just behind narcotics, weapons trafficking, and human smuggling in criminal profitability. According to the United ...

An illegal toxic dump site in Croatia, the theft of water from a major aquifer in southern Spain, illegal trading of ozone-depleting refrigerants in France: This is just a sampling of the ...

European leaders have issued an urgent rallying cry for international action to tackle environmental crime – a deeply disturbing and growing multi-billion-dollar industry which bankrolls criminal ...

This press release was updated on 7 December 2023 to include the final compromise text. The Council presidency and European Parliament negotiators today reached a provisional agreement on a proposed ...

Earlier this month a law enforcement officer in Saskatchewan, Canada contacted me about how he could help an architecture firm plan a new school that, by design, might prevent crime from occurring in ...