Combating environmental criminality and ecocide, Brussels - Main contents

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Organized by: MEP Staes, MEP Rivasi, MEP Eickhout, MEP Durand, MEP Marcellesi

15.00 - 15.10

Opening by MEP Florent Marcellesi

PANEL 1 - The rise of Environmental Crime. A growing Threat to Natural Resources, Peace, Development and Security

MODERATOR: MEP Michèle Rivasi

15.10 - 16.10

Speakers:

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  Jo BLACKMAN, Senior Campaigner (Congo Basin Forests), Global Witness.

  “Environmental crime and the global trade in tropical timber”.

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  Sebastian LOSADA, Oceans Policy Adviser at Greenpeace International.

  "The case of fishing: Greenpeace documentation of illegal fishing and human rights abuses"

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  Miriam GARCÍA TORRES, Member of Ecologistas en Acción.

  “IBEX 35 enterprises at war against life. Spanish transnational corporations and socio-ecological conflicts in Latin America”.

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  Bienvenu MATUMO, Member of the association Lucha.

  “The case of coltan and cobalt in DRC”.

16.10 - 16.30

Questions & answers

16.30 - 16.40

Coffee Break

PANEL 2 - Harnessing environmental justice to combat global environmental criminality. The way forward

MODERATOR: MEP Pascal DURAND

16.40 - 17.40

Speakers:

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  Valérie CABANES, spokesperson for End Ecocide on Earth.

  “The European Citizen Initiative End Ecocide in Europe (EEE).”

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  Johanna ENGSTROM, Legal officer, Criminal Procedural Law, DG Justice, European Commission.
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  Christian NELLEMANN, Head of the Rapid Response Unit and Director of RHIPTO.

  “The Rise of Environmental Crime. A Growing Threat to Natural Resources, Peace, Development and Security”.

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  Françoise TULKENS, former judge of the European Court of Human Rights, former chair of the International Monsanto Tribunal.

  “Combatting environmental criminality: lessons to draw from the International Monsanto Tribunal Citizen Initiative.”

17.40 - 18.15

Questions & answers

18.15 - 18.30

Closing remarks