Key Highlights

The E-waste Africa Project is a comprehensive programme aiming at enhancing the environmental governance of e-wastes and at creating favorable social and economic conditions for partnerships and small businesses in the recycling sector in Africa. It has been implemented in the framework of the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes [...]

The European Commission have launched a consultation on the 7th Environment Action Programme. It runs until 01 June and the Commission is expected to publish legislative proposals in the Autumn.
IMPEL responded to the consultation via an open letter. Please visit the Library part of IMPEL’s website to see that letter.
 

The European Commission published a Communication on Wednesday 07 March in response to a December 2010 Environment Council request that member states and the Commission enhance and improve the implementation and enforcement of EU environment legislation. The Communication focuses on knowledge about the state of the environment and how to tackle challenges on the ground. The Commission says that better access [...]

INECE (in cooperation with IMPEL) co-facilitated an international workshop in Rotterdam on the 14-15 November in which authorities and organizations met with stakeholders from the shipping industry to find common ground for effective approaches to fight illegal transnational hazardous waste shipments. Such shipments are in conflict with the provisions of the  Basel Convention and cause [...]

A report for the European Commission has concluded that: “as an indicative estimate, the costs of implementation gaps in relation to current legally binding targets could be around 50 billion per year”.

The International Network for Environmental Compliance and Enforcement (INECE), in partnership with the United States Environmental Protection Agency, the Netherland’s Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment, and other member countries, held its 9th International Conference this week in Whistler, Canada.
Entitled: “Enforcement Cooperation: Strengthening Environmental Governance”, this unique gathering brought together 150 environmental compliance and enforcement [...]