The EU must maintain its leadership role in fighting global climate change and biodiversity loss by getting tough on environmental crime. To this end, the EU Parliament needs to enter upcoming negotiations with a strong position on the Environmental Crime Directive. The vote in the legal affairs committee on 21 March is therefore crucial, write Margarida Martins and Ruby Silk. Environmental crime – be it the dumping of toxic waste, illegal water abstraction, illegal ship recycling or any other of … Continue reading Environmental crime is a crime – it’s time to act like it