Our vision
We have succeeded in aligning environmental issues with geostrategic and security challenges, while providing levers and solutions to fight and contain environmental crime.
ACE is a small but unique organization that supports, advises, and guides public and private‑sector stakeholders in combating transnational environmental crime and its related threats.
We are not environmentalists.
We are not ecologists.
We are environmental criminal intelligence providers and experts to counter environmental crime.
Why? Because environmental crime is a major financing lever for criminal, terrorist, and mafia groups - and a serious driver of instability for peace and security. We analyze these dynamics and create actionable value, just as we would for narcotics, arms trafficking, or counterfeiting. We apply rigorous investigative methods and operate under strategic and business intelligence principles to deliver decision‑grade outcomes.
Environmental crime is an organized crime, a white‑collar crime, driven solely by profit. It is a criminal enterprise. This vision underpins ACE’s work.