Working group on crimes that affect the environment (CAE)
The objective of the Working Group on Crimes that Affect the Environment (CAE) is to advance the topic of CAE in multilateral discussions with a focus on the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice (CCPCJ), Crime Congress and the UN Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime (UNTOC). In this regard, the Working Group seeks to facilitate information sharing, collaboration and joint advocacy.
To join the Working Group, please fill out this form here.
For more information, please contact env@crimealliance.org.
News
Cheat Sheets on Environmental Crimes – Illegal mining and trafficking in minerals
01 Jul, 2025
Cheat Sheet on Climate Crime
01 Jul, 2025
Cheat Sheet on Pollution Crimes
26 Jun, 2025
Cheat Sheet on Wildlife Trafficking
Prepared by the Global Initiative to End Wildlife Crime and Wildlife Justice Commission
26 Jun, 2025
Cheat Sheet on Illegal Fishing
26 Jun, 2025
Side events on crime that affect the environment at the 33rd session of the CCPCJ
07 May, 2024
Special briefing of the WG on Crimes Affecting the Environment
30 Apr, 2024
Minutes WG on Crimes that affect the Environment, 11 September 2023
12 Sep, 2023
Slides Working Group on Crimes that affect the ENVIRONMENT
17 May, 2023
Events
Statements
Statement submitted by AWTAD Anti-Corruption Organization to the UN Expert Meeting on Environmental Crime, Vienna, 30 June - 2 July 2025.
Via the Working Group on Crimes Affecting the Environment of the Alliance of NGOs for Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice
01 Jul, 2025
Contribution Tripla Defense Association Onlus Guardie Sociali ed Ecozoofile
01 Jul, 2025
A report by Paula Gaviria Betancur, the Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons addresses the gaps regarding the vulnerabilities of victims of climate-related displacement including women and girls
30 Jun, 2025
Open-ended intergovernmental expert group on crimes that affect the environment falling within the scope of the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and related offences covered by the Convention
The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) welcomes the establishment of the intergovernmental expert group on crimes that affect the environment and the renewed attention to this critical and growing area of transnational organized crime. We appreciate the opportunity to contribute to these important discussions and respectfully offer the following reflections for the consideration of Member States.
30 Jun, 2025
It’s Time for a More Systematic Focus on Organized Environmental Crimes
Submission to the Open-ended intergovernmental expert group on crimes that affect the environment (IEG) falling within the scope of the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (UNTOC) and related offences covered by the Convention will be meeting in Vienna from 30 June to 2 July 2025.
30 Jun, 2025
The Role of Police/Law Enforcement in Policing the Environment: Applied Green Victimology
Police involvement with environmental matters has been most obvious on the initiation of para-military tactics to suppress members of the green movement (Saunders 2013). The newsworthiness of confrontations between police and environmentalists is not in doubt. Should the police, however, have a more proactive role in preserving and/or conserving the environment?
30 Jun, 2025
Amazon Watch statement to contribute to the Open-ended intergovernmental expert group on crimes that affect the environment (IEG) falling within the scope of the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and related offences covered by the Convention
Illicit economies—such as drug trafficking, illegal mining, indiscriminate logging, and land trafficking—pose an escalating threat to the integrity, self-determination, and collective rights of Indigenous Peoples, as well as to the environment, biodiversity and the global climate, as can be seen in the Amazon.
30 Jun, 2025
Submission from the Global Initiative to End Wildlife Crime, with the support of the International Council of Environmental Law
UNTOC Open-ended Intergovernmental Expert Group (IEG)
30 Jun, 2025
Written statement to the Open-ended Intergovernmental Expert Group on Crimes that Affect the Environment
Organization: Stichting Wildlife Justice Commission
30 Jun, 2025
A new Protocol for the UNTOC?
A guidance note for the 1st meeting of the new Intergovernmental Expert Group on crimes that affect the environment
30 Jun, 2025
Files
Fourteenth United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice
12 May, 2023
Preventing and combating crimes that affect the environment
12 May, 2023
Follow-up to the Fourteenth United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice and preparations for the Fifteenth United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice
12 May, 2023
Kyoto Declaration
12 May, 2023
Thematic Discussions Multi-Year Workplan 2021-2024
12 May, 2023