June 2018 – June 2023 Client: IMPEL Network The Shipment of Waste Enforcement Actions Project (SWEAP) was co-funded by the European Commission’s LIFE programme and coordinated by the IMPEL Network. Running from September 2018 to June 2024, the project aimed to support the circular economy by combating illegal waste trade across the EU. SWEAP’s key objectives […]| AmbienDura
September 2020 – June 2023 Client: World Customs Organization The Asia-Pacific Plastic Waste Project (APPWP), implemented by the WCO Secretariat and funded by the Government of Japan from April 2020 to June 2023, aimed to strengthen the capacity of Customs administrations to mitigate and appropriately respond to environmental threats in the Asia-Pacific region. More specifically, […]| AmbienDura
June – December 2022 Client: Basel Institute on Governance Waste management is a huge industry at the local, national and international levels. Public services play a key role in dealing especially with waste generated by households. Getting waste management right is essential if we are to achieve a circular economy and the Sustainable Development Goals. Complex […]| AmbienDura
January – December 2021 Client: United Nations Office for Drugs and Crime UNODC’s Organized Crime Branch developed a Legislative Guide on Waste Trafficking to support States in enacting or strengthening domestic legislation to prevent and combat waste trafficking. The Guide is a tool for Member States to amend or adopt legislation to better address the challenges posed […]| AmbienDura
July 2018 – October 2019 Client: Scottish Environmental Protection Agency Coordinating and leading the EU-wide pilot of the Horizon Scanning toolkit as part of the LIFE SMART Waste Project. This methodology provides a systematic approach to gather information and intelligence, and ways to interpret the data so that trends in waste crime can be identified. […]| AmbienDura
Ambiendura launched the app Watch-IT: Waste and Chemicals Inspection Tool. The app aims to support environmental inspectors and law enforcement officers to perform inspections of shipments of waste and chemicals.| AmbienDura
Assisting in the training needs assessment, supporting in the development of a training toolkit and delivering F2F training for the DOTCOM Waste project.| AmbienDura
Provided training for law enforcement officers from authorities in Croatia, Serbia, Albania, former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, and Turkey on:| AmbienDura
Waste Crime - Waste Risks. Co-authoring the Rapid Response Assessment: Hazardous Waste Crime: A communication initiative aiming to raise hazardous waste trafficking higher on the global and national political agendas and feature the magnitude as well as cross border movement of the on-going global hazardous waste criminality.| AmbienDura
December 2018 – May 2021 Client: IMPEL Network The WasteForce project, acronym for Deterring and disrupting illegal trade and management of Waste by developing Tools for Enforcement, Forensics and Capacity Building, aimed at boosting the operational activities and capacities of authorities involved in the fight against illegal trade and management of waste through: To achieve […]| AmbienDura