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Tackling Environmental Crime throUgh standardized Methodologies

Closing Address of Lt. Gen. Tullio Del Sette
Carabinieri General Commander

My address marks the end of these intensive two days on the subject of
‘Man and the Environment: Global Challenges, Safeguards and Prospects for
the Future’.

This has been an international conference which Ingegnere Cesare
Patrone, who has just given his extraordinarily learned and interesting report,
full of detail and passion, and I, with the full support of the ministers concer-
ned, very much wanted to happen. During the conference we have heard extre-
mely high-profile contributions regarding the global situation, the situation
here in Italy, the action that must be taken to protect the environment and the
prospects for the future.

It has been – as indeed it was intended to be – first and foremost a homa-
ge to the environment, to ‘Mother Earth’, home to all of humanity and all the
world’s flora and fauna which we have a duty to preserve as best we can for
future generations, in order to guarantee future well-being and sustainable
development for all living creatures.

The presence in this hall of so many members of the Armed Forces,
including the High Command, and representatives, at both a national and a
regional level, of the State Forestry Department, as well as important and well-
known individuals, has given considerable prestige and substance to the confe-
rence.

The learned contributions of ministers and experts and the important
testimony of representatives of environmental groups, which have been
fighting for decades to protect the natural world, have given us the opportunity
to acquire not only knowledge that we did not have before, but also a new awa-
reness and greater sensitivity in identifying the priorities for future action aimed
at protecting the environment.

As far as the global situation is concerned, important insights have been
offered into the risks and opportunities associated with climate change, and the
implications for international security; the International Consortium Against
Environmental Crime’s role in co-ordinating the fight against crimes which

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