crimini ambientali

Following long and detailed negotiations, the European institutions have finally sanctioned an agreement which provides for the inclusion of the concept of ecocide - that is, crimes at the expense of marine and terrestrial ecosystems, their flora and fauna and the resulting impact on climate and communities – in community law.Although "ecocide" has not yet been formally classified as an international crime, the European Commission, the European Council and the European Parliament have united around a text which, through a lexical and legal trick, opens the way to a timely accountability of the perpetrators of environmental crimes.In fact, an infringement defined as "qualified" has been introduced which, as stated in the text, aims to allow the most serious crimes to be prosecuted, i.e. "extensive environmental pollution, industrial accidents or serious fires, which are considered covered by the crime in a form comparable to the crime of ecocide as it is e...

A recent report analyzed 230 cases of environmental crimes committed in Amazonian countries over the last ten years, with the aim of understanding the methods and destinations of laundering the proceeds deriving from these illicit activities.The study was conducted by the FACT Coalition, an alliance of more than 100 organizations committed to fight against corrupt financial practices.In the report, the association reveals that the United States represents the most common foreign destination for the products and profits of eco-crimes committed in the Amazon region.The most widespread method for money laundering involves the use of shell and front companies, while corruption emerges as the most frequent collateral crime. The report of FACT Coalition was published in late October, and was written by Julia Yansura, program director for environmental crime and illicit finance at the FACT Coalition.It analyzes open sources on 230 cases of environmental crime to better understand how they are...