News

11-04-2012 International Product Support Company Senior Vice President Pleads Guilty to the Illegal Purchase and Sale of Smuggled Ozone-Depleting Refrigerant Gas, Southern District of Florida Press Release
02-03-2012 An attempt to smuggle more than 19 tons of ODS to the Russian Federation was curbed in St. Petersburg, read the article (in Russian), Info note
28-11-2011

Interpol/UNEP, First International Chiefs of Environmental Compliance and Enforcement Summit, Lyon, France, 27 - 29 March 2012

Outline and objectives

25-11-2011 Three publications in Spanish: Que es el Convenio de Rotterdam? Que hace la Direccion General de Aduanas en beneficio del Protocolo de Montreal y la Copa de Ozono? Que es la iniciativa Aduanas Verdes?
24-11-2011

MOP 23 Side Event, HCFC Smuggling: Experiences and Prevention

Bali Nusa Dua Convention Center, 24 Nov 2011, 13:15 - 14:15

25-07-2011 London's museums warned of rhino horn theft risk, see article;

London's museums have increased security after raids by gangs stealing rhino horn.

18-07-2011 2 tonnes of pangolins seized in Indonesia, see article
08-07-2011 Interpol, newsletter, July 2011
30-05-2011 EIA, "System Failure" the UK's harmful trade in electronic waste
24-03-2011 OSCE, Press Release, 'OSCE trains officials to detect and prevent smuggling of hazardous waste'
03-2011 UNEP in Europe Newsletter, March 2011, see article 'Enforcing trade restrictions on ozone-depleting substances'
31-03-2011 Interpol, Strategic Plan, 2011 - 2013
29-03-2011 Interpol newsletter, Environmental Crime Programme News, March 2011
01-03-2011 WCO Press Release, Customs capacity building in Africa to combat illicit wildlife trade yields spectacular results, PR English, PR French
18-02-2011 Governments gear up to fight environmental crimes
09-02-2011 Green Customs Initiative Annual Meeting at INTERPOL
10-11-2010 Joint WCO/ UNEP operation nets large haul of ODS, see Information booklet
23-3-2010 Afghanistan and UNEP form partnership against smuggling of Ozone Depleting Substances, see Press Release
19-3-2010 International Product Support Company Convicted and Sentenced for the Illegal Purchase and Sale of Smuggled Ozone-depleting Refrigerant Gas, see Press Release
11-2-2010 Kroy Corporation and James Garrido sentenced for illegal Ozone-Depleting substance smuggling operation; associate pleads guilty to false customs declarations, see Press Release
27-1-2010 Businessman convicted for evading $ 1.9 million in taxes on sales of ozone-depleting greenhouse gases, Department of Justice, News Release
12-01-2010 Green Customs Newsletter, Issue 1
23-11-2009 Kroy Corporation and James Garrido plead guilty to illegal smuggling of ozone depleting substance, Press Release, Southern District of Florida
19-11-2009 WCO, International agencies meet to develop global strategy to combat wildlife crime, See Announcement
15-9-2009 WCO, West African Customs Alert on Environmental Crime
29-07-2009 Sub regional Green Customs Workshop, Lagos, Nigeria, 29 - 31 July 2009, countries participating: Nigeria, Gambia, Ghana, Liberia, Sierra Leone
8-07-2009 WCO Brussels. Operation Demeter yields tons of illegal shipments of hazardous waste. See Press release
22/06/2009

Workshop on Combating Illegal Hazardous Waste Trade through Seaports, Accra, Ghana, 22-23 June 2009, International Network for Environmental Compliance and Enforcement, please see Press Statement

5-06-2009 WCO launched ENVIRONET, a global communication tool for use in the fight against environmental crime at the border on the occasion of World Environment Day (5 June) see Press release
25-05-2009 WCO Green Customs Regional Workshop, Delhi, 25-29 May 2009
28-04-2009 Mongolia National Green Customs Workshop, 28 - 29 April 2009
24-03-2009 Interpol media release: international police operation coordinated by INTERPOL nets alleged leader of wildlife smuggling network
13-03-2009 Interpol media release: unprecedented Brazilian operation supported by INTERPOL breaks up wildlife smuggling network
23-02-2009 World Customs Organization Enforcement Committee, Brussels
17-02-2009 Capacity Building for Environmental Security: GCI Side Event at 25th Governing Council of UNEP
20-02-2009 UNEP Governing Council, GC25 , Green customs to be recommended as a means for cooperation on chemical conventions.
02-02-2009 Global CITES operation nets over 4500 endangered species in 1 day
27-1-2009 5th GCI Partners' Meeting, Brussels
26-1-2009 International Customs Day 2009, "Customs and the environment: protecting our natural heritage", WCO HQ, Brussels, opening address by Kunio Mikuriya, WCO Secretary General
16-10-2008 INTERPOL and CITES launch new support manual for wildlife crimes investigators
13-05-2008 Green Customs Side Event at the Cartagena Protocol on Biodiversity (COP-MOP-4), Bonn, Germany
27-03-2008 WCO, Environment Crime now high on the world agenda
20-09-2007 20th Anniversary Ozone Protection Award for Green Customs Initiative
09-08-2007 French.xinhuanet, "formation des douaniers ouest-africains a Dakar"
09-08-2007 All Africa.com,"produits chimiques illicites"
09-08-2007 SudOnline.sn, "lutte contre le trafic illegal des produits chimiques"
25-07-2007 Muelex, "Sub-regional GCI workshop for Indian Ocean countries
07-07-2007 BruneiDirect, "Training Customs Officers"
05-07-2007 2007 Millennium Goal Report
31-05-2007 Fiji Times, "Danger lurks under bonnets"
12-02-2007 Crack-down on chemicals criminals in Asia Pacific
14-12-2006 UNEP, "Donor Governments should support on-going Cote d'Ivoire Emergency
30-10-2006 18th Meeting of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol, New Delhi
26-09-2006 WCO, Launch of WCO Harmonized System
01-09-2006 Project Sky Hole Patching
05-06-2006 UNEP DELC, Manual on Compliance with/and enforcement of MEAs
15-02-2006 Central Asian States discuss Green Customs Initiative
12-12-2005 17th Meeting of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol, Dakar
14-02-2006 Uzbekistan, Green light for Green Customs Initiative
14-11-2005 Customs Officers need support to fight environmental crime
14-11-2005 E.African customs officers to meet over environmentally sensitive commodities
04-10-2005 UNEP's GCI at OPCW, The Hague
15-09-2005 Regional Forum on combating environmental crime formed
30-06-2005 CITES celebrates 30 years of achievement
02-03-2005 Trilateral Meeting Albania/ Bosnia & Herzegovina/ Croatia
25-10-2004 7th Conference of the Parties to the Basel Convention
02-10-2004 13th Meeting of the Conference of the Parties, CITES
02-02-2004 Stopping Traffic
18-07-2003 UNEP DTIE OzonAction releases new training video for customs officers
03-06-2003 WCO and UNEP sign MoU