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This week, we launch the final episode of the Environmental Crimes Financial Toolkit Podcast with WWF: Public-Private Partnership on Environmental Crime.
Our guests are Ned Conway, Executive Secretary of the Wolfsberg Group and Chair of the UN Private Sector Dialogue on environmental crime, and Lynn Schlingemann from the World Resources Institute, who coordinates the Dialogues globally.
We discuss how the UN Private Sector Dialogues bring together banks, law enforcement, and environmental experts to share intelligence, what concrete outputs emerge from these collaborations, and how financial institutions can engage in effective public-private partnerships to tackle environmental crime.
This week, we speak to Ned Conway and Lynn Schlingemann to discuss global cooperation to tackle environmental crimes.
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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.
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.
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 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 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 Melina Risso, Director of Research at the Igarape Institute, about illegal mining in South America.
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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.
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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 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.
