Environmental crime – such as forestry crime, illegal mining and waste trafficking – is an extremely profitable criminal enterprise, generating billions in criminal gains each year. It fuels corruption, and converges with many other serious and organised crimes, such as tax fraud, drug trafficking and forced labour.
20.05.2022 G7 Germany Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors´ Petersberg Communiqué
“We recognise that the fight against money laundering linked to environmental crimes can contribute to combatting climate change as well as the loss of biodiversity. We renew our commitment to address the risks of illicit finance from environmental crime and recognize them as a cross-cutting issue.”
G7 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors´ Petersberg Communiqué
28.06.2021 FATF: Money Laundering from Environmental Crime
Money Laundering from Environmental Crime
25.06.2020 FATF: Money Laundering and the Illegal Wildlife Trade
Money Laundering and the Illegal Wildlife Trade
10.09.2018 Interpol World Atlas of illicit flows / Environment
Combined, environmental crimes, including those that involve the sale or taxation of natural resources, account for 38% of the financing of conflicts and of non-state armed groups, including terrorist groups; followed by drugs (at 28%); other forms of illegal taxation, extortion, confiscation and looting (26%); external donations (3%); and money extorted through kidnapping (3%).1 This evidence-based report aims to quantify how these illicit flows finance the major non-state armed groups
See Environmental crime. The largest conflict finance sector page 15
03.01.2024 Global Fishing Watch Study reveals 75 percent of the world’s industrial fishing vessels are hidden from public view
05.01.2024 Heise: Dank Satellitenbildern und KI: Bislang unbekannte Fischereiflotten entdeckt
Thanks to satellite images and AI: previously unknown fishing fleets discovered
24.01.2024 Sentinel-1 and AI reveal 75% of fishing vessels not tracked
