Corrupting the Environment

Virtual Lecture Series Launch at the Basel Institute On Governance

The series launch on International Anti-Corruption Day will open with brief remarks from the organisers' leadership. The following debate will explore how financial crime and illicit trade fuel environmental degradation, and what business, conservation and international organisations are doing about it.

The "Corrupting the Environment" series will follow a monthly schedule. These events will trake place in the first half of 2021 touching upon the following themes and topics:

• ILLICIT TRADE: What those combating the illicit trade in environmental goods can learn from the private sector’s efforts at fighting other forms of illicit trade.
• TRANSPARENCY AND ACCOUNTABILITY IN MINERAL SUPPLY CHAINS: How due diligence on mineral extraction and trade can help curtail environmental degradation, corruption and money laundering.
• BEHAVIOURS, NORMS AND NETWORKS: Are there similarities behind the role of societal drivers behind corruption and environmental crime
• FINANCIAL CRIME & CONVERGENCE: Unpacking how money laundering and bribery facilitate different types of environmental crime, covering illegal wildlife trade, forestry crimes, IUU fishing, illegal mining and waste.
• FOLLOW THE MONEY: The promises and challenges of financial investigations in environmental crimes: a practitioners’ debate.  
• CYBER-TRENDS: The growth of online trade in environmental goods during the pandemic and associated opportunities and challenges for investigations.
• TRADE IN WASTE: The highly complex trade in waste products (industrial, toxic and household) is both an environmental and political challenge for source and destination countries. How do countries' diverging interests, coupled with corruption, create opportunities for the illicit waste trade?

The organizeres welcome the active participation of a wide range of stakeholders in the upcoming series. For comments, suggestions or requests to participate in the panel discussions, please contact juhani.grossmann@clutterbaselgovernance.org.

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