A/RES/80/227 Tackling illicit trafficking in wild fauna and flora, including timber and timber products, the illegal mining of and illicit trafficking in minerals and precious metals, illicit trafficking in waste and other crimes that affect the environment 18. Welcomes the establishment, in accordance with Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime resolution 12/4, of the open-ended intergovernmental expert group on crimes that affect the environment, whose mandate is: (a) firstly, to take stock of the application and collective implementation of the Convention in addressing such crimes; (b) secondly, to identify any gaps that may exist in the international legal framework and that could be addressed under the Convention to prevent and combat such crimes; and (c) thirdly, to consider possible responses relevant to those gaps, including the possibility, feasibility and merits of any additional protocol to the Convention, and which is also to submit a summary of the deliberations and any consensual recommendations to the Conference at its thirteenth session; 19. Encourages Member States to give special consideration, at the Fifteenth United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, to be held in the United Arab Emirates in 2026, to the challenges posed by crimes that affect the environment; 20. Also encourages Member States to continue considering all aspects of the fight against crimes that affect the environment, including possible responses to those crimes, in the appropriate forums, giving due consideration to the work of the open ended intergovernmental expert group on crimes that affect the environment and to the summary that is to be submitted to the Conference of the Parties to the Organized Crime Convention at its thirteenth session; 21. Encourages States Parties, when responding to the self-assessment questionnaires for the review of the implementation of the Organized Crime Convention and its Protocols, to provide, on a voluntary basis, any relevant information regarding their national measures to tackle crimes that affect the environment; 22. Invites Member States and other donors to provide extrabudgetary resources for the purposes set out in the present resolution, acknowledging that such extrabudgetary resources are subject to the rules and procedures of the United Nations, and requests the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime to utilize any such extrabudgetary resources efficiently and effectively. 69th plenary meeting 18 December 2025 6/6 25-20945