This meeting of the Follow-the-Money Working Group of the Countering Environmental Corruption Practitioners Forum will explore how corruption networks function in practice.
Carbon markets are meant to help finance forest protection and climate action. Yet too often they are undermined by weak governance, corruption risks and a lack of transparency.
Concerns over the credibility of some carbon credits erode trust in a system designed to channel climate finance and support forest-dependent communities.
A high-level meeting in La Paz, Bolivia brought together senior government officials and international partners to address a key driver of environmental crime: corruption. The event was one of the first public activities under the Basel Institute on Governance’s new UK-funded programme, “Building a global network to prevent biodiversity-related corruption.”
Participating authorities signed a joint declaration to strengthen integrity and prevent “green corruption” in the management of natural resources.
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Case Study 14: Madagascar: a landmark conviction for money laundering linked to environmental crime
This Case Study demonstrates how international cooperation and the follow-the-money approach revealed a transnational criminal network trafficking endangered species and led to Madagascar’s first money laundering conviction related to wildlife trafficking.
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This U4 Issue analyses Indonesia's ambitious energy transition and highlights how political finance, weak regulations and a "revolving door" of personnel between public office and the private sector create vulnerabilities. The publication was produced by U4 and the Basel Institute on Governance through its Green Corruption programme.
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Preventing corruption in the timber value chain: Risk management experiences in Latin America
Corruption in the timber value chain is a major challenge for environmental sustainability and governance in Latin America.
This report presents the application of a corruption risk management approach by environmental authorities in Bolivia, Ecuador and Peru, implemented through technical assistance from the Basel Institute on Governance’s Green Corruption programme.
The diversity of activities to prevent and combat corruption that harms the environment is laudable. But it is far from the scale needed to tackle today's corruption and environmental challenges.
Adopted in 2019, UNCAC Resolution 8/12 – Preventing and combating corruption as it relates to crimes that have an impact on the environment – urges States Parties to the UN Convention Against Corruption (UNCAC) to prevent, investigate and prosecute corruption offences where they may be linked to crimes that have an impact on the environment.
This is a meeting of the Minerals Corruption Working Group of the Countering Environmental Corruption Practitioners Forum.
The session will focus on the Resource Matters' new report, “Nine Red Flags in the Emerging Lithium Sector in the DRC”, and will explore governance gaps, transparency challenges and corruption risks across the emerging lithium value chain.