It’s Time for a More Systematic Focus on Organized Environmental Crimes

Submission to UN Intergovernmental Expert Group on Crimes that Affect the Environment

Submission to UN Intergovernmental Expert Group on Crimes that Affect the Environment within the scope of the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime. (2025).  Title: It’s Time for a More Systematic Focus on Organized Environmental Crimes.

Abstract: Organized environmental crime has a direct impact on environmental quality, endangers biodiversity, contributes to the depletion of natural resources, and causes harm to humans. It is time that it be treated as a form of organized crime, using the tools created in the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime. http://criminologists-without-borders.org/commentary