Thailand's AMLO Secretary-General Theppasu Bavornchotidara examines the convergence of environmental crime with other predicate crimes and the wide-reaching impacts of illegal fishing.

Transparency International Peru's Magaly Avila examines the intersection of international environmental crime, corruption, and human trafficking.

Interpol's Cindy Buckley discusses the global security threats posed by environmental crime and how Interpol is working to combat them.

Transparency International's Ketakandriana Rafitoson examines how environmental crime disproportionately impacts Indigenous Peoples and their communities.

Banco Santander's Global Head of Financial Crime Compliance and UN Private Sector Dialogue Chair Ned Conway examines the links between land conversion, financial crime, and human rights.

OECD Policy Analyst Luca Maiotti introduces the OECD Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible Mineral Supply Chains and the role of financial crime compliance in corporate supply chain risk management.

We discuss how environmental crimes converge with financial crimes, practical tools and guidance available in the Environmental Crimes Financial Toolkit, and recommendations for financial institutions to take action to address their exposure.

We discuss the vulnerabilities of financial institutions to laundered proceeds of environmental crime, key ML mechanisms, real life examples of ML and corruption in practice, and practical steps financial institutions can take to tackle these issues.

We discuss the drivers behind wildlife trafficking, the material impacts on both people and nature, and explores how we might tackle the illegal wildlife trade.

We talk to Melina Risso, Director of Research at the Igarape Institute, about illegal mining in South America.

We talk to Sasha Lezhnev, Senior Policy Advisor at The Sentry, about conflict gold and other minerals in the DRC, and how these minerals connect to the global financial system.

We talk to Adam Farhan, Director at Rimbawatch, and Pamela Avusi, Coordinator of the Papua New Guinea Environmental Alliance, about the challenges and complexities of deforestation in Southeast Asia

We talk to Paulina Villalpando, Associate Director for Nature at HSBC, and Collin Lobo, Regional Head of Financial Crime Compliance for MENAT at HSBC, about a financial institution's approach to environmental crime risk.

We talk to Sarah Maston, an founder of Microsoft's Project 15 Open Platform for conservation and ecological sustainability to discuss how we can tackle wildlife crime with technology.

This week, we speak to Kevin Lacks-Kelly, Head of the UK National Wildlife Crime Unit, to discuss the financial crime dimensions of the illegal wildlife trade.

This week, we speak to Ned Conway and Lynn Schlingemann to discuss global cooperation to tackle environmental crimes.

This report is an introduction to an Environmental Crimes Financial Toolkit being developed by WWF and Themis, as part of the Climate Solutions Partnership, a collaboration between HSBC, the World Resources Institute and WWF.

The illegal wildlife trade is a US$20B global criminal industry posing major risks to financial institutions. Our report highlights key exposures, gaps in risk mitigation, and how banks can detect and disrupt illicit financial flows linked to wildlife traffic.

Illegal mining is a growing environmental crime linked to laundering, corruption and human rights abuses. This report examines mineral supply chain risks and provides guidance for FIs on AML/CTF, ESG screening, due diligence and responsible finance.