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4 Networks Conference: Cooperation in strengthening environmental enforcement
September 28, 2023 - September 29, 2023
Our international partner European Union Network for the Implementation & Enforcement of Environmental Law (IMPEL) is co-hosting the 4 Networks Conference: Cooperation in strengthening environmental enforcement that AELERT members can attend virtually via MS Teams.
International cooperation and alignment are very important when it comes to enforcement of EU environmental law. To improve the collaboration and alignment of enforcement, it is essential that enforcers have structural, personal and frequent contact moments where they can strengthen their network, exchange experiences and best practices, discuss ongoing cases and align their enforcement activities together.
The goal of the 4 Networks Conference is to bring all relevant parties together to debate joint efforts to fight environmental crime.
The main themes of this conference are:
- How new techniques can be used to prevent and detect environmental offences?
- How can administrative and criminal law enforcement complement each other?
- How to make environmental crime unprofitable?
- How to assess, remediate and compensate for the damage incurred?
- How to measure enforcement results?
This conference builds on the success of the last 4 Networks online event – Together in the fight against environmental crime in 2021 as well as the two previous conferences held in person in Oxford in 2017 and Utrecht in 2016.
Conference resources
Download a copy of the conference agenda, read the presenter biographies and find the presentations in the links below.
Abstracts and presenter biographies
4 Networks Conference closing address and statement of international priorities
About the 4 Networks Conference
The 4 Networks Conference is being curated by four environmental enforcement networks of practitioners including: