| Implementation,
enforcement of and compliance with international environmental agreements
are crucial. Therefore, UNEP, in its Division of Environmental Policy
Implementation (DEPI), has created a unit dedicated to ensuring compliance
with and enforcement of established national, regional and international
environmental policy instruments, particularly legally-binding instruments
(Compliance
and Enforcement Unit).
As an implementation-based section, the Compliance and Enforcement unit
supports efforts to combat environmental crime. It undertakes and assists
training and coordination activities among national enforcement authorities,
convention secretariats, Interpol and the World Customs Organization.
Major initiatives of this unit include the development and implementation
of Guidelines
on Compliance with and Enforcement of Multilateral Environmental Agreements,
and the organization of workshops and technical support to current and
aspiring parties to the Lusaka Agreement on cooperative Enforcement Operations
Directed at Illegal Trade in Wild Fauna and Flora. Providing technical
assistance to Governments, particularly in the form of compiling training
manuals, organizing education workshops and providing legal advisory services,
is central to the unit’s operation.
The Unit is also
coordinating an expert-led assessment
of environmental liability and compensation regimes, with a view to
ensuring that adequate information regarding all tools for implementation
is made available.
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