Combating environmental criminality and ecocide
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:
- Jo BLACKMAN, Senior Campaigner (Congo Basin Forests), Global Witness.
“Environmental crime and the global trade in tropical timber”. - Sebastian LOSADA, Oceans Policy Adviser at Greenpeace International.
"The case of fishing: Greenpeace documentation of illegal fishing and human rights abuses" - 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”. - 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:
- Valérie CABANES, spokesperson for End Ecocide on Earth.
“The European Citizen Initiative End Ecocide in Europe (EEE).”
- Johanna ENGSTROM, Legal officer, Criminal Procedural Law, DG Justice, European Commission.
- 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”.
- 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
