Green Customs offers information and training materials for customs officials to combat illegal trade in commodities of environmental concern. This initiative is supported by the World Customs Organisation, Interpol, CITES, the Basel Convention, Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), UNEP DTIE's OzonAction Programme, the Ozone Secretariat, UNEP DELC as well as Rotterdam (PIC) and Stockholm (POPs) Conventions.

 

Green Customs
About this initiative

 

Ozone Depleting Substances
The Montreal Protocol

 

Hazardous Wastes
The Basel Convention

 

Prior Informed Consent
The Rotterdam Convention

 

Persistent Organic Pollutants
The Stockholm Convention

 

Endangered Species
CITES

 

 
 

Green Customs Workshop for Latin America

Caracas, Venezuela, 27 - 29 February 2008

 
 

20th Anniversary Ozone Protection Award for Green Customs Initiative

Montreal, Canada, 20 Sept 2007

Photo courtesy of Leila Mead/IISD/Earth Negotiations Bulletin

 
 

Public-Private Partnership for the prevention of illegal trade, roundtable in Mongolian gher

Ulan Baator, Mongolia, 28-29 June 2007