International institutions and the fight against transnational environmental crimes

Fajardo, Teresa and Pereira, Ricardo ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2087-3004 2025. International institutions and the fight against transnational environmental crimes. Pereira, Ricardo and Fajardo, Teresa, eds. A Research Agenda for Environmental Crime and the Law, Elgar Research Agendas, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, pp. 285-314.

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Abstract

This chapter reviews the specific mandates and functions assigned to a selection of international organisations and institutions and the informal networks created between them and national law enforcement agencies (LEAs) to fight transnational environmental crime. It shows how the lack of an international environmental organisation, a global environmental crime treaty or a common definition of environmental crime accepted by all states not only exposes the institutional deficit in the field of international environmental law, but also reflects the ‘soft’ multi-level environmental governance and flexible legal formulas contained in multilateral environmental agreements. It also examines how international institutions such as those of the United Nations, especially UNEP and UNODC, together with INTERPOL, the European Union and the Council of Europe, have established mandates for countering environmental crime and, more generally, ‘crimes related to the environment’. The chapter also addresses how combating transnational environmental crime requires the joint efforts of international organisations and State and non-State actors.

Item Type:	Book Section
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Schools > Law Schools > Social Sciences (Includes Criminology and Education)
Publisher:	Edward Elgar
ISBN:	9781803929941
Last Modified:	12 Jun 2025 10:05
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/178483

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