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:

This virtual event explored how technology, cooperation and information-sharing are key to combating the trade in illegal goods, including wildlife, minerals and forest products.

It was part of the Corrupting the Environment webinar series of the Basel Institute on Governance and the OECD.

Piotr Stryszowski, Senior Economist at the OECD’s Task Force on Countering Illicit Trade, moderated the event, featuring:

This virtual event launched the Corrupting the Environment webinar series, a monthly series of discussions in 2021 on different issues of corruption, the environment and illicit trade. 

The first plenary meeting of the Countering Environmental Corruption Practitioners Forum will bring together practitioners in environmental conservation and anti-corruption. It is open to all who register their interest in being part of the forum.

Environmental crime is lucrative, with its profits easily realised via financial crime and corruption.

This side event at the 9th Conference of the States Parties (CoSP) to the UN Convention Against Corruption (UNCAC) explored the issue with panelists from government and civil society.

They discussed the efforts and remaining gaps in leading national law enforcement and conservation efforts to attack this corruption by tracing both the illicit financial flows which facilitate environmental crime and the illegally obtained profits derived from it.