Time for a Protocol on Transnational Environmental Crime?

Issue title: Our Earth Matters: Pathways to a Better Common Environmental Future – Part 2

Guest editors: Bharat H. Desai

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Rose, Gregory L.^{; *}

Affiliations: Professor, Australian National Centre for Ocean Resources and Security (ANCORS), University of Wollongong, Australia

Correspondence: [*] Corresponding author. E-mail: grose@uow.edu.au.

Abstract: Environmental law became global through the adoption of environmental treaties in the last quarter decade of the 20th century. Similarly, globalisation of criminal law accelerated when the Convention on Transnational Organised Crime 2000 (CTOC) deepened international legal cooperation between States to combat transnational crime. A protocol to the CTOC, complemented by voluntary guidelines and model legislation, could promote international harmonisation of laws against environmental crimes. This article argues that the time is right to bring together certain elements of international environmental and transnational criminal law.

Keywords: Protocol on transnational environmental crime, international environmental and transnational criminal law

DOI: 10.3233/EPL-219008

Journal: Environmental Policy and Law, vol. 51, no. 1-2, pp. 75-80, 2021