In November, political leaders, government officials, scientists, and representatives of civil society and the private sector from all around the world will gather in Brazil to discuss the urgent challenges of climate change at the 30th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP30). But the official agenda makes no mention of one the most dangerous threats to the environment in Latin America: organized crime.
In the Amazon region and beyond, organized crime is involved in illegal mining, logging, land grabbing, and trafficking, leading to the deforestation that fuels climate change. Drug production and gold processing are also poisoning and degrading the delicate ecosystems that maintain the planet’s natural systems in balance.
Join us for a special donors-only virtual panel where InSight Crime investigators and experts from across the region will discuss the criminal threats driving climate change, the policy gaps and failures in oversight facilitating environmental crime, and how this topic intersects with the COP30 agenda.
