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The Environmental Crime Crisis

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At stake:

S$ nU llio i b

Livelihoods

11 to

Species extintion Endangered forests National economies: Illegal logging between 15 and 30 % of the global legal trade

30 to

10 0

Major environmental crimes At stake:

S$ lion U bil 30

Fish stocks depletion Loss of revenues for local fishers and States Targeted species: tuna, toothfish, sharks

Climate change emissions from deforestation and forest degradation

FISH

Lack of legislation National

Mafias Lack of law Corporate crime International enforcement International National National International National

48 b

US$ on illi

Increasing demand International Domestic

Major routes from North to South (unlike other environmental crimes)

Resource depletion

12 t o

Gold, diamond, rare earth... Loss of raw material for local industry

At stake:

$

At stake:

Livelihoods (local communities)

Species extinction

12 billion US to

Conflict National Regional

At stake:

1

National Local

WILDLIFE

S$ nU lio l i 5b 13

10

Corruption

Tropical species demand for pets, food and traditional medicine

illion US 23 b $ to 1 billion US$

S IVER DR

7

TIMBER

Ecosystem depletion Human health

WASTE

MINERALS

A comparison: Official Development Assistance (ODA) GRID-Arendal and Zo誰 Environment Network, 2012.

Figure 1. Estimated scale of various forms of transnational environmental crime.15 15


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