📅 Thursday, July 10, 2025 | 🕓 4:30 PM – 6:30 PM
📍 Room Libreville 2, Radisson Blu Hotel, Libreville – Gabonese Republic
As part of the Regional Conference of the Congo Basin Forest Partnership (CBFP), this high-level side event will focus on a pressing regional priority: combating environmental crime and securing transboundary protected areas in Central Africa.
Organized by ECCAS, COMIFAC, UNEP, and UNODC, with strategic support from the CBFP, this session will foster political dialogue, strengthen institutional collaboration, and promote integrated responses to threats facing critical ecosystems in the region.
Building on outcomes from the 20th CBFP Meeting of Parties (Kinshasa, June 2024) and the Regional Conference of Brazzaville (May 2025), the event will contribute to operationalizing flagship initiatives such as TRIDOM and TNS, while advancing a regional vision of ecological security.
Objectives
Analyze the political, institutional, and operational evolution of efforts to combat environmental crime.
Highlight the complementary roles of COMIFAC, ECCAS, UNEP, UNODC, and CBFP.
Identify key levers for a more coordinated, transboundary, and sustainable regional response.
Develop strong policy recommendations for Heads of State.
Expected Outcomes
A shared understanding of the impacts of environmental crime on biodiversity and forest conservation.
An updated overview of institutional roles and mandates.
Concrete proposals to strengthen judicial, security, and ecological cooperation.
A strategic contribution to the official Libreville Conference communiqué.
A joint roadmap leading to an inter-agency action plan by late 2025 or early 2026.
Target Audience
Senior officials from ministries of justice, environment, defense, customs, and forestry; regional institutions (ECCAS, COMIFAC, CBFP, UNOCA, GABAC); law enforcement officers, magistrates, technical partners, researchers, and civil society organizations.
The outcomes of this side event will be integrated into the conference’s final conclusions and will feed into joint action plans by ECCAS, COMIFAC, and CBFP, contributing to the recognition of ecological security as a regional political priority in African and international forums (COP30, CITES, UNTOC...).
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