Cocaine and the environment: first international TPA published
Cocaine and the environment: first international TPA published
Cocaine markets have the potential to generate environmental harms that extend far beyond deforestation to include air, water and soil contamination and biodiversity loss across multiple regions and cocaine-related activities. This is according to a new international Targeted Policy Analyses (TPA) we published with Peru’s National Commission for Development and Life without Drugs (DEVIDA) on 19 June. The report explores how these impacts can be better understood and measured, and maps existing monitoring practices and methodological tools, indicators and data opportunities that could support more systematic cocaine-related environmental impact assessments in future. This is the first in a new series of TPAs developed under our expanded mandate and outlined in the EUDA International Cooperation Framework. The co-produced TPAs aim to generate policy-relevant insights on emerging issues of shared concern to Europe and its international partners. (EUDA, Lissabon, 19.06.2026)