This report, which focuses on Latin America and the Caribbean, aims to identify the environmental impacts associated with illegal drug production and trafficking, as well as those associated with State responses within the framework of drug control enforcement. Its content offers a strategic perspective that analyses and proposes alternatives in order to avoid, reduce or compensate for these environmental impacts. Through this study, COPOLAD III seeks to continue strengthening the development of public policies on drugs, identifying challenges, options and possible solutions.
The good news is that there are multiple opportunities and mechanisms for change that can enable drug policies to mitigate these environmental impacts and contribute to the restoration and conservation of the ecosystems that have been affected.
The report is accompanied by a Methodological Guide, whose main objective is to provide conceptual and instrumental guidelines and tools that can be preliminary inputs for the National Drug Observatories in Latin American and Caribbean countries in designing and implementing research and analyses that are more specific to this topic.
