Enforcing Environmental Laws for Strong Economies and Safe Communities

This roadmap for environmental and natural resources law enforcement (ENRLE) sets forth a course of action for the World Bank's ENRLE community of practice for FY2013-15. It outlines for senior management a strategy to mobilize and strengthen the Bank's engagement in the fight against environmental and natural resource crime. The roadmap also serves as a mobilizing tool for staff and management in regional departments to demonstrate the importance of ENRLE and to outline the menu of solutions that the community of practice (COP) can offer to strengthen clients' fight against environmental and natural resource crime. Recent spikes in poaching, in illegal logging, and in illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing have amplified the already urgent need for action. These crimes increase poverty, shrink prosperity, and magnify social and political tensions that undermine healthy communities and strong economies. Investment returns in wise environmental and natural resource law enforcement can be high. Criminal activities that affect the environment and natural resources are on the increase and pose an increasingly serious threat to development. Environmental and natural resource crime is common, but in many countries it is rarely prosecuted. This report discusses how the World Bank Group (WBG) will mobilize to work better on ENRLE. Recognizing the evolving global context, a new and fully mobilized community of practice will put more emphasis on building a constituency within the WBG to work on the range of ENRLE issues, on building the capacity of WBG staff to provide investment and technical assistance on ENRLE, on strengthening analytical work to develop a pipeline of ENRLE investments, and on fostering demand among clients for Bank investment in ENRLE.

Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	World Bank
Language:	English en_US
Published:	Washington, DC 2014-02
Subjects:	ACCOUNTABILITY, AFRICAN ELEPHANT, ANIMAL, ANIMAL PARTS, ANIMAL PRODUCTS, ANNUAL DEFORESTATION, ANTI-CORRUPTION, ANTICORRUPTION, ANTICORRUPTION WORK, ARMED CONFLICT, ARSON, ASSETS, AWARENESS RAISING, BEAR, BIODIVERSITY, BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION, BIODIVERSITY LOSS, BRIBES, CANCER, CIVIL SOCIETY, CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANIZATIONS, CLIENT COUNTRIES, CLIMATE CHANGE, COASTAL COMMUNITIES, COLLAPSE, COLLECTIVE ACTION, COMMODITIES, COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY, COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY, COMMUNITY FORESTRY, COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION, COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE, CONSERVATION, CONSERVATION BIOLOGY, CORAL, CORAL REEFS, CORPORATE GOVERNANCE, CORRUPT, CORRUPT OFFICIALS, CORRUPT PRACTICES, CORRUPTION INVESTIGATION, CORRUPTION INVESTIGATIONS, CREEK, CRIME, CRIME PREVENTION, CRIMES, CRIMINAL, CRIMINAL ACTIVITY, CRIMINAL JUSTICE, CRIMINALS, CRIMINOLOGY, CUSTOMS AUTHORITIES, DECISION MAKING, DEFORESTATION, DEVELOPING COUNTRIES, DISADVANTAGED COMMUNITIES, DISCLOSURE REQUIREMENTS, DISCRETION, DUE DILIGENCE, ECONOMIC GROWTH, ECONOMICS, ECOSYSTEMS, ELECTRONIC SURVEILLANCE, ELEPHANT, ELEPHANT POACHING, ELEPHANT RANGE, ELEPHANTS, ENCROACHMENT, ENDANGERED SPECIES, ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES, ENFORCEMENT AGENCY, ENFORCEMENT PROBLEMS, ENVIRONMENTAL, ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE, ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT, ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCES, ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY, ETHICS, EXOTIC BIRDS, EXPLOITATION, EXPOSURE, EXTINCTION, EXTRACTIVE INDUSTRIES, FAUNA, FINANCIAL FLOWS, FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS, FINANCIAL INTELLIGENCE, FINANCIAL INTELLIGENCE UNITS, FINANCIAL MARKET, FINANCIAL SECTOR, FINANCIAL SUPPORT, FINANCIAL SYSTEMS, FISH, FISH STOCKS, FISHERIES, FISHERS, FISHING, FLORA, FOOD SECURITY, FOREST, FOREST DEGRADATION, FOREST LAW, FOREST LAW ENFORCEMENT, FOREST MANAGEMENT, FOREST PRODUCTS, FORESTRY, FRAUD, FRESHWATER TURTLES, GLOBAL GOVERNANCE, GLOBAL GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT, GLOBAL INITIATIVES, GOOD GOVERNANCE, GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL, GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS, HUNTING, ILLEGAL FISHING, ILLEGAL LOGGING, ILLEGAL TIMBER, ILLEGAL TRADE, ILLEGAL TRADE IN WILDLIFE, ILLEGAL WILDLIFE, INCOME, INCOMES, INFORMATION SYSTEM, INITIATIVE, INSTITUTION BUILDING, INTEGRITY, INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION, INTERNATIONAL LAW, INTERNATIONAL TRADE, INVESTIGATION, INVESTIGATORS, INVESTMENT CLIMATE, ISSUES, IVORY, IVORY TRADE, JUDICIARY, JURISDICTION, JURISDICTIONS, JUSTICE, LAND TENURE, LAW ENFORCEMENT, LAWS, LEADERSHIP, LEGAL FRAMEWORKS, LIQUIDITY, LIVE ANIMALS, LOGGING, LOW-INCOME COUNTRIES, MONEY LAUNDERING, NATIONAL PARK, NATURAL CAPITAL, NATURAL RESOURCE, NATURAL RESOURCE AGENCIES, NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT, NATURAL RESOURCES, OFFENSE, OFFENSES, OWNERSHIP RIGHTS, PENALTIES, PLANT, POACHING, POLICE, PORTFOLIO, PRIMARY MARKET, PRIVATE SECTOR DEVELOPMENT, PROSECUTION, PROSECUTIONS, PROSECUTORS, PROTECTED FAUNA, PUBLIC FUNCTIONS, PUBLIC GOOD, PUBLIC GOODS, RECYCLING, REDUCING EMISSIONS, REGULATORS, REGULATORY AUTHORITIES, REGULATORY FRAMEWORKS, REPTILES, RESEARCH AGENDA, RESOURCE MANAGEMENT, RHINO, RHINO HORN, RISK MANAGEMENT, RULE OF LAW, SIDE PAYMENTS, SMUGGLING, SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT, SUSTAINABLE FOREST MANAGEMENT, SUSTAINABLE NATURAL RESOURCE, TAX, TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE, THEFT, TIGER, TIGER BONES, TIGERS, TIMBER, TIMBER PRODUCTS, TRADE INFORMATION, TRANSPARENCY, TRANSPARENCY INITIATIVE, TREASURY, TREE, TREES, TROPICAL RAIN FORESTS, UNDERCOVER OPERATIONS, USE OF FIRE, VIOLENCE, WAGES, WASTE DISPOSAL, WEAK LAW ENFORCEMENT, WILDLIFE, WILDLIFE CRIME, WILDLIFE POACHING, WILDLIFE PROJECT, WILDLIFE TRADE,
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2014/02/19042258/enforcing-environmental-laws-strong-economies-safe-communities https://hdl.handle.net/10986/17560
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