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The elephant in the room: Raising up corruption on the conservation agenda

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Join leading voices in anti-corruption, governance, finance, and natural resource management for solution-oriented insights on the economic, environmental and institutional costs of corruption and how the conservation community can better address root causes to improve outcomes for people and biodiversity.
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Corruption is a grabbing hand that distorts good governance, undermines the sound management of natural resources, facilitates environmental crime and illegal trade, and drives resources away from the public good and into private hands. CITES and other high-level bodies are starting to raise the profile of this issue and how it affects people and biodiversity, but practitioners need a stronger understanding of the forms corruption take, how it contributes to environmental crime, undermines our climate, decimates biodiversity, harms communities, and what can be done about it. This session brings together prominent leaders in anti-corruption, finance, conservation and other sectors from US, Europe, Africa and Latin America to assess the challenges that corruption poses and to set an agenda for the anti-corruption and conservation communities to work together more effectively. It focuses on corruption, illicit logging, wildlife trade and follow the money related to this activity.

Agenda de la session

Modérateur

Prof. Alonso AGUIRRE

Department Chair,
George Mason University
United States of America

Introduction
18:00 - 19:30

Prof. Louise SHELLEY

Director, Terrorism, Transnational Crime and Corruption Center (TraCCC),
George Mason University, Terrorism, Transnational Crime and Corru
United States of America

Introduction
18:00 - 19:30

Panéliste

CHARLES BARBER

Senior Biodiversity Advisor,
World Resources Institute
United States of America

“Why Forest Crime and Associated Corruption is a key Barrier to Fighting Climate Change and Biodiversity Loss”
18:10 - 18:25

Ms Gretta FENNER

Managing Director,
Basel Institute on Governance
Switzerland

Corruption, Environmental Crime and Follow the Money and Recovering Assets”
18:40 - 18:55

Atuweni-tupochile AGBERMODJI

AML/CFT Adviser,
United Nations Office on Drug and Crime -Regional Office of South
Malawi

). “The Role of Financial Intelligence Units in combating IWT: The Case of Malawi”
18:55 - 19:10

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