ECO-SOLVE in Action: Data-Driven Strategies for Combatting Environmental Crime

Abstract

This seminar will explore the ECO-SOLVE programme, a division of the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organised Crime (GI-TOC). ECO-SOLVE has been specifically designed to monitor the illicit online environmental trade, extract useful and digestible data that can inform law enforcement and private sector actions, while driving greater transparency and accountability in tackling illicit online markets. It engages in multilateral coordination, enhancing political will and ensuring its work influences key international forums on law enforcement, data, and community engagement. In this presentation, the ECO-SOLVE team will explain the ideas and data that fed into the design of the programme, how its methodologies and field practice developed in practice, and what they have learnt so far, with a view to future programming.