One means of facilitating international cooperation and coordination in “environmental law enforcement circuit”, is the designation and establishment of channels of communication and information exchange among relevant bodies. Such bodies can include UNEP, the Secretariats of MEAs, the World Customs Organisation and relevant international entities, research institutes and NGOs and the international law enforcement agencies such as the International Criminal Police Organisation (Interpol), through its “Green Interpol” activities.
Avenues for such proposed collaborative/interactive intelligence-gathering and information exchange are currently being provided by UNEP (which coordinates the activities of several MEAs), and other transnational enforcement facilitation networks such as UNEP-WCMC, International Network for Environmental Compliance and Enforcement (INECE), the Customs Enforcement Network (CEN) of the World Customs Organisation, the European Network on the Implementation and Enforcement of Environmental Law (IMPEL), and similar regional networks.
More information on these networks is available in the discussion of Guideline 34(c)
. Guideline 33(f) also includes a case study on the Green Customs Initiative, in which the WCO and Interpol are partners.