WCC-2025-Res-048 - Activity Report submission form

General Information

Period covered
IUCN Constituent
Ministère de l'Europe et des Affaires étrangères
IUCN Constituent type
IUCN Member organisation
Activities carried out to implement this Resolution
Relevant operative para(s) of Res/Rec Activities Overview Description Status
7
Convene stakeholders/Networking
During its G7 Presidency, France included environmental crime in one of its tracks ("filière intérieur") and has reactivated a technical expert group on topics such as investigation on environmental crime.
Completed
10
Policy influencing/advocacy
France made CaE a priority in efforts to combat international organized crime. France chairs a group of friends on CaE in Vienna (HQ of UNODC), and has supported UNEA-7 resolution by Kenya and Peru (withdrawn). France advocates for strengthening the international legal framework on CaE, and is strongly involved in the UNTOC intergov expert group, and will be at next UNTOC COP. FR will also push for language on CaE in the Crime Congress declaration.
On-going

Actors involved in these activities

IUCN Secretariat
Yes
Challenges / lessons learned
Challenges / lessons learned Description
Other (please specify)

- Political pushback: some countries pushback on a reinforcement of the international legal framework on CaE. (In UNEA-7, some countries refused the resolution on environmental crime, which had to be withdrawn ; the recommandations of the UNTOC intergovernmental expert group were not consensual).
- Problem of definition of what is encompassed in environmental crime, and thus what could be considered in a potential 4th Protocol to the UNTOC.

Report status
Published