Beneficial ownership (BO) data is crucial in tackling environmental corruption by enhancing transparency and accountability in corporate ownership. This is a guest blog by a Practitioners Forum member.

Carbon markets can help tackle the climate crisis, but safeguarding these mechanisms against corruption is essential to ensure they achieve their intended benefits. The Safeguarding Carbon Markets Challenge will award grants ranging from $50,000 to $500,000 to organizations with innovative concepts that enhance transparency and accountability in carbon markets.

This summary includes four takeaways from the Land Corruption Working Group meeting on 3 July. Experts from the private sector and civil society discussed on how free, prior, and informed consent can prevent corruption but is also vulnerable to capture by elites, with examples from Kenya to India.

This summary includes three takeaways from the Open Data working group meeting on 27 June. We featured Alanna Markle, Policy and Research Manager and Agustina De Luca, Senior Advocacy Manager at Open Ownership.

This summary of the Forum's fifth plenary session explores experiences in taking gender into account when designing and assessing environmental anti-corruption measures.

This blog post includes four takeaways from the Follow-the-Money working group meeting on 15 May. We featured Johan Jooste, National Section Commander for Wildlife Trafficking at the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation (DPCI), and Shelley Brown, Senior Manager of the Financial Crime Intelligence Unit at the ABSA Group.

This blog post includes four takeaways from the Follow-the-Money working group meeting on 20 March. We featured Ian Gary and Julia Yansura of the FACT Coalition to discussed about the United States' role in tackling illicit financial flows related to environmental crimes in the Amazon.

The 10th Conference of the States Parties to the UN Convention Against Corruption (CoSP10) in December 2023 provided a platform dedicated to addressing environmental corruption. This blog summarises the main themes and the relevance of the Practitioners Forum in countering environmental corruption.

This blog includes three takeaways from the Follow-the-Money working group meeting on 17 January. We featured Mark Williams of the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), who shared about the "closed case method" in illegal wildlife trade.

In July 2023, 40 conservation and anti-corruption practitioners from 20 countries came together in Quito, Ecuador for the Anti-Corruption Learning and Strategy Workshop. Here, experts from WWF, TRAFFIC, Transparency International, the Basel Institute on Governance, and the Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime took stock of learning from five years of anti-corruption work under TNRC and via complementary efforts and identified priorities for the environmental anti-corruption movement going forward. Drawing from key takeaways, this post dispels some common myths and charts a new course for impact.