Transcript International Network for Environmental Compliance

International Network for Environmental
Compliance and Enforcement
ECENA 1st Plenary Meeting
Januari 19-20, 2006
Zagreb
Henk Ruessink
(i.c.w. INECE Secretariat)
Environmental Law, Good Governance, Sustainable
Development: Opportunities and Perspectives
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The Need for Enforcement
Since 1972, both multilateral environmental
agreements and national environmental laws &
agencies have increased.
But environmental quality continues to decrease.
Growing consensus that weak compliance &
enforcement is a key reason.
Agenda 21 established an international mandate to
build enforcement capacity as an essential element
of environmental management.
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Closing the Gap:
Transgovernmental Networks
INECE is such a network.
Solves “trilemma”:
• need more global rules,
• without centralized power,
• but with political accountability.
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About INECE
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What is INECE?
• Global network of environmental compliance &
enforcement practitioners
– More than 4,000 from more than 120 countries
– Government officials, international governmental
organizations, & non-governmental organizations
• Key partners
– Netherlands, United States, Environment Agency,
European Commission, Brazil, Canada, other national
governments
– World Bank, UNEP, OECD
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What is a Transgovernmental
Network?
• Form of cooperation involving government
officials (and sometimes NGOs)
• Operates informally (without a formal
treaty or institution)
• Allows officials to interact with, cooperate
with, and learn from their peers in other
countries
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INECE Strategic Work Program
• Raising Awareness
– Issue Analysis (e.g., White-papers)
– Publications (e.g., Making Law Work) & message promotion
• Capacity Building
– Principles of Enforcement and Other Courses
– International and Regional Conferences
– Performance Measurement: INECE ECE Indicators
• Enforcement Cooperation
– Emissions Trading, Hazardous Wastes, Illegal Logging, Water
Resources Management, Ozone Depleting Substances
– Regional and Topic-Specific Networks
• e.g., Maghreb (Nothern Africa), AECEN (Asia)
• e.g., prosecutors, judges
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Multiple Players
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Scientists
Parliamentarians
Regulators
Prosecutors
Judges
Civil Society
Industry
• Academics
• Media
• Intergovernmental
Organizations
• International Financial
Institutions
• Capital Markets
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Beginnings
• 1985 – MOU between US EPA and Dutch
VROM to cooperate on environmental
enforcement
• 1989 – Ongoing bilateral exchange between US
EPA and Dutch VROM
• 1990 - The first International Enforcement
Workshop held in Utrecht, The Netherlands
• Subsequent Conferences in Budapest, Oaxaca,
Chiang Mai, Monterey, San Jose, and
Marrakech
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7th INECE Conference
• Marrakech, 9-15 April 2005
• Approx. 200 participants, from 63 countries / 124
organizations
• 6 plenaries; 25 workshops
• Reports at www.inece.org/conference/7/
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Key Marrakech Conference
Outcomes
• Promoted role of compliance and
enforcement in achieving sustainable
development
• Developed “Marrakech Statement” and Call
to Action
• Initiated process for launching an
enforcement network for the Maghreb region
• Generated significant list of “ideas for action”
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Key Marrakech Conference
Outcomes
• Agreed to develop a wildlife enforcement and
compliance network
• Agreed to enhance the capacity of
parliamentarians
• Launched initiative to collect and record
“Stories of Success”
• Developed new strategic partnerships
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Environmental Compliance &
Enforcement Indicators
• Measure and manage program performance and
effectiveness
• INECE Performance Measurement Guidance
• Developing training program for identification,
design, and use of these Indicators
• Pilot projects around the world
• INECE/UNEP indicators for implementation of
multilateral environmental agreements
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Water Governance Course
• Water governance refers to the systems in place
to regulate the development and management of
water resources and provision of water services
• Three modules in Course:
– writing enforceable legal requirements
– ensuring compliance and enforcement
– performance measurement
• Case study and class exercises focusing on
pollution of rivers
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Judicial Remedies
• Global and Regional Judges Symposia
– Capacity building
– Training
• Comparative Judicial Remedies Project
– Comparative data on penalty policies
– “Penalty calculator” tool built on the best
practices of judges and regulators from
around the world.
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Enforcement Cooperation
Projects
• Logging and Wildlife
– Wildlife Enforcement Network to promote
NGO and government cooperation
• “Green Customs” and “Ecomessage”
– Technical assistance, (inter)national contacts,
information exchange, and technical support
• Hazardous Waste at Ports
– Coordinating efforts to curtail “port shopping”
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Chapters include:
• Compliance Theories
• MEAs in Action
• Domestic Strategies
• Courts, Tribunals, & Liability
• Information Regulation
• Compliance Assistance
• Regulators’ Choice of
Strategies
• Indicators
• Transgovernmental Networks
• Compliance & Competitiveness
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INECE Web Site
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Starting a Maghreb Network
(Morocco, Algeria, Tunesia, Lybia and Mauretania)
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What Can Networks Do?
• By working directly peer-to-peer, networks
can:
– flexibly and quickly disseminate information
– enhance enforcement cooperation
– harmonize laws and regulations
– address common problems from shared
perspective shaped by experience and
expertise
• Build capacity of enforcement officers
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Existing ECE Networks
• INECE
• REPIN (EECCA)
• IMPEL (EU)
• ECENA (Balkans)
• AECEN (Asia)
• Green Customs
• CEC (N. America)
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Basic things for Networks
• Identify geographic scope and key participants
• Establish clear mission, multi-year work plan
with clear focus, and strategies for linking to
existing enforcement networks
• Identify coordinator and chair of network
• Develop strategic plan with goals, priority
projects, activities, timeframes, personnel,
partners, budget, metrics, and other strategies
(e.g., communications, web)
• Develop sustainable funding strategy
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What Could a Maghreb Network Do?
• ECE Indicators project
• Enforcement cooperation on waste in ports
• Peer review enforcement systems to assess
capacity building needs
• Trainings (e.g., Principles of Enforcement; water
governance)
• Share knowledge and build contacts among
regulators, enforcers, inspectors, etc.
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Conclusion
Successful networks:
– Respond to an identified need
– Adhere to a Strategic Plan
– Empower participants
– Stay focused but remain responsive to new
needs
– Leverage potential of networking
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Contact Information
Durwood Zaelke
Director of Secretariat
Geneva & Washington, DC
Email:
[email protected]
Web:
www.inece.org
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