This week, we launch Episode 8 of the Environmental Crimes Financial Toolkit Podcast with WWF: Technology Solutions for Wildlife Crime.
Our guest is Sarah Maston, Co-Chair of the Impact Technology Champions Global Initiative to End Wildlife Crime and founder of Microsoft's Project 15 Open Platform for conservation and ecological sustainability.
We discuss how technology can help detect and disrupt wildlife crime, the role of public-private partnerships in fighting environmental crime, and how innovation can bridge the gap between environmental intelligence and financial crime detection.
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.
