The European legal order generally puts quite a lot of trust in Environmental Crimes: albeit in
different form and degree, indeed, both the European Union and the Council of Europe prescribe
the use of Criminal Law to tackle serious environmental harm. After having outlined, first, the
main features of EU Environmental Criminal Law (part., Dir. 2008/99/EC) and, subsequently,
the scope of criminal obligations inferred from the European Court of Human Rights case-law
on environmental matters (part., Artt. 2 and 8 ECHR), this work aims at briefly analyzing the
convergence between the two legal systems, pointing out advantages, limits and opportunities
for further development.