Crimes that Affect the Environment - the Research of UNODC

Session Submission Type: Roundtable

Abstract

The Research and Trend Analysis Branch of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime has had its mandate expanded by UN Member States to include first wildlife crime and then crimes that affect the environment. This means that UNODC is required to produce research outputs investigating the nature and scope of these once overlooked crimes. This roundtable shares some of the latest findings from these investigations, including wildlife crime, illegal deforestation and logging, and criminal marine pollution.

Subtopic

• Topic 2: Types of Offending / Environmental/Green Criminology

Chair

• Tanya Wyatt, UNODC

Individual Presentations

• Understanding wildlife crime through the offenders’ eyes: Finding solutions for the future – prisoner interviews in Indonesia - Katalin Kecse-Nagy, UNODC

• Illegal deforestation and logging - UNODC's Global Analysis on Crimes that Affect the Environment - Giulia Serio, UNODC

• Criminal Marine Pollution - findings from UNODC's first ever Global Analysis on Crimes that Affect the Environment - Tanya Wyatt, UNODC