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Hi everyone, I am excited to present work done within @biosec_erc
#IllegalLogging=most lucrative💰 env crime but is often addressed as happening elsewhere➡️ #EU mostly commits to⛔️imported #deforestation. I🔍 at ramifications of timber trafficking within EU #Greencrime2021
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🇪🇺 #EU does NOT have laws 2 fully address timber trafficking as #greencrime
#EUTR regulates the🥇 timber placement on the market, BUT timber trafficking=authorization+🪓🌳🌲+🚛🚂+smuggling+processing➡️Environmental &social #harms 🔗these stages are left out. #Greencrime2021
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Recently journalists&activists📢cases of #organisedcrime, some w/t transnational character. 🇪🇺Politicians increasingly refer 2 timber mafia & use it as political ammunition.

Environmental harms are spectacularly presented but social harms r hardly mentioned #Greencrime2021
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Despite ↗️ attention &political momentum #timbertrafficking is rarely prosecuted as #crime, most member states opting 4 administrative/regulatory sanctions

⚠️Across 🇪🇺 it is important to employ both env &social justice frameworks 4 addressing #illegallogging #Greencrime2021
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