Illegal fishing was the theme of the first Follow-the-Money (FTM) Working Group meeting on 15 March 2023. The Basel Institute on Governance leads this Working Group as part of the Countering Environmental Corruption Practitioners Forum, an initiative of the Basel Institute, WWF, TRAFFIC and Transparency International.
At this month's meeting of the Follow-the-Money Working Group, Simon Marsh will present a case study from East Africa illustrating proactive financial investigations in illegal wildlife trade, with a focus on the international nexus.
The case study will reveal the strategies, challenges and successes in tracing the flow of illicit funds to disrupt a criminal network engaged in illegal wildlife trade.
Malawi has taken another positive step towards protecting the country’s wildlife, forests and other natural resources from illegal exploitation facilitated by corrupt practices.
Senior officers from Malawi’s main environmental and law enforcement agencies came together on 15-17 February 2023 for a three-day workshop led by the Basel Institute’s Green Corruption team. Together, the officers explored how to conduct systematic corruption risk assessments and develop targeted corruption risk mitigation plans for their agencies.
Event
Assessing corruption risks that undermine law enforcement action against natural resource crimes
Hosted by the Basel Institute on Governance as part of the Targeting Natural Resource Corruption (TNRC) Learning Series, this webinar addressed three learning questions:
Hosted by the Basel Institute on Governance as part of the Targeting Natural Resource Corruption (TNRC) Learning Series, this webinar explored how internal controls could be key to preventing corruption linked to the environment and natural resource management.
It addressed four learning questions:
This virtual event focused on waste trafficking, a topic that receives little attention despite generating significant criminal proceeds (estimates suggest up to USD 12 billion per year). In addition to the financial costs, waste trafficking has enormous impacts for the environment, including from pollution or degradation, and inhibits development by fuelling corruption and poverty in some countries.
This virtual event explored the latest trends in the online sale of environmental goods, including live animals and wildlife products.
It was part of the Corrupting the Environment webinar series of the Basel Institute on Governance and the OECD.
Juhani Grossmann, Team Leader Green Corruption at the Basel Institute on Governance, moderated the panel featuring:
Why do people poach, trade and buy protected wildlife – and what might change that behaviour? This virtual panel discussion focused on how behavioural approaches can and must complement interventions tackling illegal wildlife trade (IWT) and other environment crimes.
It was part of the Corrupting the Environment webinar series of the Basel Institute on Governance and the OECD.
Frédéric Boehm, Economist/Policy Analyst at the OECD, moderated the panel featuring:
This virtual event explored how countries and companies can more effectively tackle the hundreds of billions in illegal funds flowing annually from environmental crimes. Critical imperatives include:
This virtual event explored how to improve transparency and accountability in mineral supply chains and reduce corruption, environmental and human rights risks.
The panelists highlighted three critical imperatives to tackle the hundreds of billions in illegal funds flowing annually from environmental crimes: