Launch of the ECO-SOLVE Programme
ECO-SOLVE is a new three-year project within the European Union’s Global Illicit Flows Programme, implemented by the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime (GI-TOC). The project was initiated in September 2023 with the aim of introducing innovative approaches to combating global environmental crime.
The launch event will take place over a half day and will include keynote speeches, panel discussions, live interviews, and videos and animations, with contributions drawing out the nature of the problems that ECO-SOLVE aims to address, and highlighting the ways in which the project has set about tackling them. We are expecting an audience made up of key European Commission staff; representatives from the European Multidisciplinary Platform Against Criminal Threats (EMPACT) and the Global Illicit Flows Programme; senior NGO leaders working on environmental crime, organized crime and corruption; and key officials from intergovernmental organizations.
About The Speakers
Officer of the Spanish Guardia Civil and leader of the Cybercrime stream of EMPACT, Guardia Civil
Officer of the Spanish Guardia Civil and leader of the Cybercrime stream of EMPACT
Head of Unit for Global and Transregional Threats and Challenges, Service for Foreign Policy Instruments (FPI) of the European Commission
Maria Rosa Sabbatelli is currently the Head of Unit for Global and Transregional Threats and Challenges at the Service for Foreign Policy Instruments (FPI) of the European Commission.
Executive Secretary, Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)
Executive Secretary of the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)
CEO, Inuka Kenya ni Sisi
CEO of Inuka Kenya ni Sisi, and former anti-corruption official with the Kenyan government
Environmental defender
Environmental defender combating illegal deforestation on indigenous lands, Paraguay
GI-TOC, Law Enforcement and Organized Crime Consultant
A recognized expert with 30 years in the field of wildlife law enforcement, including more than a decade as a senior manager with the US Fish and Wildlife Service.
