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REUTERS/Amanda Perobelli</p></div></div><div class="col col-24 col-lg-18"><div class="ArticleSummary_articleSummary__KD3Cr "><h2>What’s the context?</h2><p>For the first time, global law enforcers meet at UN climate talks to discuss how to turn the heat up on environmental criminals</p></div><div class="ArticleText_text__9RYj1 "><ul> <li><span><span class="ui-provider ee bwl byt byu byv byw byx byy byz bza bzb bzc bzd bze bzf bzg bzh bzi bzj bzk bzl bzm bzn bzo bzp bzq bzr bzs bzt bzu bzv bzw bzx bzy bzz" dir="ltr">Tackling environmental crime to be discussed at COP28</span></span></li> <li><span><span class="ui-provider ee bwl byt byu byv byw byx byy byz bza bzb bzc bzd bze bzf bzg bzh bzi bzj bzk bzl bzm bzn bzo bzp bzq bzr bzs bzt bzu bzv bzw bzx bzy bzz" dir="ltr">Global law enforcement community taking part in meeting</span></span></li> <li><span><span class="ui-provider ee bwl byt byu byv byw byx byy byz bza bzb bzc bzd bze bzf bzg bzh bzi bzj bzk bzl bzm bzn bzo bzp bzq bzr bzs bzt bzu bzv bzw bzx bzy bzz" dir="ltr">Organised gangs threaten Amazon with illegal activities</span></span></li> </ul> <p>From drug traffickers laundering money through dubious land purchases to miners illegally panning for gold, environmental crime is thriving in the Amazon and the question of what to do about it will be high on the agenda at the COP28 talks in Dubai.</p> <p>For the first time, the <a href="https://www.cop28.com/en/health-events/Ministerial-Forum-Empowering-Law-Enforcement-to-Protect-Biodiversity-and-Ensure-Climate-Resilience" target="_blank" rel="noopener">global law enforcement community</a> will gather at the U.N. climate conference, which starts on Thursday and runs until Dec. 12, to discuss how to combat the rise of illegal activities that threaten both people and planet.</p> <p>The <a href="https://www.unodc.org/documents/commissions/CCPCJ/CCPCJ_Sessions/CCPCJ_32/Statements/Item_8_UAE.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">law enforcement meeting</a>, dubbed "a historic collaboration", is organised by the International Initiative of Law Enforcement for Climate (I2LEC), a joint initiative between the Ministry of Interior of the United Arab Emirates and the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><span class="ui-provider ee byg bqx cae caf cag cah cai caj cak cal cam can cao cap caq car cas cat cau cav caw cax cay caz cba cbb cbc cbd cbe cbf cbg cbh cbi cbj" dir="ltr"><i>Want to hear more under-reported stories from the frontlines of the climate emergency? </i><a aria-label="Link Click here to subscribe to our Climate. 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Change.</strong> newsletter.</i></a></span></p></div><div class="ArticleText_text__9RYj1 "><p>In recent years, the Amazon has become a drug-trafficking thoroughfare with illicit cargo easily passing through the vast, sparsely populated and thinly policed region.</p> <p>Organised crime gangs also launder money through land grabs, illegal mining, logging and other activities, endangering one of the world's most critical and fragile ecosystems.</p> <p>Protecting the world's largest rainforest is seen as crucial in the fight against climate change because it absorbs vast amounts of the fossil fuel emissions that drive global warming.</p> <p>Here's what you need to know about environmental crime in the Amazon and efforts to combat it:</p> <h2>How big a problem is organised crime in the Amazon?</h2> <p>Organised crime groups involved in <a href="https://www.context.news/nature/death-and-deforestation-cocaine-trade-adds-to-amazons-woes" target="_blank" rel="noopener">drug trafficking and production</a>, illegal logging and mining, and land grabbing are a growing problem in the Amazon and affect the eight countries and one French territory that span the Amazon basin.</p> <p>A 2018 assessment, co-authored by Interpol, found that <a href="https://globalinitiative.net/analysis/world-atlas-of-illicit-flows/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">environmental crime</a> was the world's third most lucrative criminal business, surpassed only by drug trafficking and smuggling.</p> <p>A 2023 UNODC report said "significant parts of the Amazon Basin are wracked by a complex <a href="https://www.unodc.org/res/WDR-2023/WDR23_B3_CH4_Amazon.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ecosystem of drug crime</a> (and) crime that affects the environment," with illicit activities often happening near Indigenous groups living in the rainforest.</p> <p>Criminal organisations include a myriad of different groups, from international drug cartels to local crime gangs.</p></div><div class="ArticleText_text__9RYj1 "><p>Coca, the raw ingredient for cocaine, has been <a href="https://www.context.news/nature/can-colombias-green-businesses-beat-drugs-and-deforestation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">grown in Colombia's rainforests</a> since the 1990s and more recently in Peru and Bolivia.</p> <p>Gold has been mined illegally in parts of the Amazon basin since the late 16th century but in recent decades small-scale illegal gold mining has skyrocketed as high prices <a href="https://www.context.news/nature/why-are-high-gold-prices-bad-for-the-amazon-rainforest" target="_blank" rel="noopener">triggered a gold rush</a>.</p> <h2>How do crime groups launder money in the Amazon rainforest?</h2> <p>The damage being done to the rainforests in Colombia, Peru, Brazil and Bolivia has been described as "<a href="https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/narco-deforestation-focus-upcoming-summit-amazon-nations-2023-08-03/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">narco-deforestation</a>".</p> <p>Traffickers use drug profits to buy forest land - sometimes illegally speculating or else legally buying forest - that is then turned into cattle pastures.</p> <p>UNODC said drug traffickers also launder money through other agricultural activities, such as soy and palm oil production, and there is growing evidence that traffickers provide finance and logistics for illegal gold mining across the Amazon basin.</p> <p>Until April this year, gold could be legally sold in Brazil using simple paper receipts based on the <a href="https://www.context.news/nature/how-can-brazil-ramp-up-its-crackdown-on-illegal-gold-miners" target="_blank" rel="noopener">"good faith" of the seller</a>, which made inserting illegally mined gold into the formal market relatively easy.</p> <p>According to a report from the Igarapé Institute, a Brazilian think-tank, criminal organisations tend to diversify into environmental crime because it attracts less attention from authorities and carries "<a href="https://igarape.org.br/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/SP60_FOLLOW-THE-MONEY.pdf?utm_campaign=lavagem_de_dinheiro_1-_email_ingles&utm_medium=email&utm_source=RD+Station" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a fraction of the risk</a> related to drug trafficking".</p> <h2>How does this crime drive deforestation in the Amazon?</h2> <p>Clearing forest to make way for cattle pastures is a <a href="https://www.context.news/nature/how-can-brazils-cycle-of-amazon-land-grabs-be-broken" target="_blank" rel="noopener">key driver of deforestation</a> across the Amazon, particularly in Brazil, home to the largest share of the rainforest, as well as in Colombia and Bolivia.</p> <p>Illegal gold mining operations also destroy forests, while the mercury used to separate the gold from grit pollutes rivers and contaminates soil and food.</p> <p>Drug traffickers sometimes also clear trees to build small airstrips and roads to smuggle cocaine, cannabis and synthetic drugs across borders.</p></div><section class="ArticleBodyGoDeeper_wrapper__EZEf_"><div class="ArticleBodyGoDeeper_article__C_1oO"><div class="ArticleBodyGoDeeper_article__image__rcBiK"><div class="imageContainer ImageContainer_imageContainer__MSr4b " style="aspect-ratio:100 / 100"><a class="LinkWrapper_linkWrapper__DpMdK undefined" tabindex="-1" href="/nature/is-the-amazon-summit-the-best-chance-to-save-the-rainforest"><img alt="Colombian President Gustavo Petro and Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva greet indigenous people upon their arrival at the event 'Road to the Amazon Summit' in Leticia, Colombia July 8, 2023. 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leadership</a></span></div></div><a tabindex="-1" aria-label="At COP27, Brazil bets on Lula to reclaim forest leadership" href="/nature/at-cop27-brazil-bets-on-lula-to-reclaim-forest-leadership"><div class="ArticleBodyGoDeeper_article__cta__t_wT_"><div></div></div></a></div></section><div class="ArticleText_text__9RYj1 "><h2>Are there other Latin American countries where money laundering is destroying forests?</h2> <p>Narco-deforestation is also a problem in parts of Central America where cocaine traffickers launder their profits by clearing and burning tropical forest to make way for agricultural land and cattle ranches, including in Nicaragua, Honduras and <a href="https://www.context.news/just-transition/guatemalas-farmers-take-on-cowboys-in-push-to-restore-maya-forest" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Guatemala</a>.</p> <h2>Why is it so hard to combat money laundering in forests?</h2> <p>Persistent and high levels of corruption, limited state presence across large and remote forest areas, and a lack of coordination among Amazon countries all help money laundering and other drug-funded environmental crimes go unchecked.</p> <p>Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has introduced a <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/lula-wants-new-brazil-police-unit-tackle-environmental-crimes-2022-11-30/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">series of measures</a> to combat organised crime in the Amazon, including plans for a new Federal Police unit focused on environmental crime.</p> <p>In recent years, Brazil, Colombia and Peru have tried to set up multinational police patrols along their shared borders.</p> <p>They have also ramped up efforts to prosecute environmental crimes and established <a href="https://longreads.trust.org/item/peru-wonder-woman-gold-mining-illegal-Amazon" target="_blank" rel="noopener">police or army environmental protection forces</a> to combat organised crime and illegal gold mining.</p> <p>In August, at the relaunch of the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization (ACTO), eight Amazon nations committed to set up an <a href="https://www.context.news/nature/amazon-summit-lights-way-for-indigenous-say-in-forest-protection" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Amazon police cooperation centre</a> in the Brazilian city of Manaus, aimed at exchanging information among countries.</p> <p>But experts say more regional cooperation and coordinated policing efforts are needed to effectively go after the crime groups operating in the Amazon.</p> <p>(Reporting by Anastasia Moloney; Editing by Clar Ni Chonghaile and Laurie Goering)</p></div><hr class="Container_mainDivider__Y3X5_"/><section class="row"><div class="ArticleBodySignature_article__R6JeU"><div class="ArticleBodySignature_article__body__iMxON"><p>Context is powered by the Thomson Reuters Foundation Newsroom.</p><p>Our Standards: <a href="https://www.thomsonreuters.com/en/about-us/trust-principles.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"><span 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Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"ui-provider ee byg bqx cae caf cag cah cai caj cak cal cam can cao cap caq car cas cat cau cav caw cax cay caz cba cbb cbc cbd cbe cbf cbg cbh cbi cbj\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eWant to hear more under-reported stories from the frontlines of the climate emergency? \u003c/i\u003e\u003ca aria-label=\"Link Click here to subscribe to our\u0026nbsp;Climate. Change. newsletter.\" title=\"https://www.context.news/newsletters?utm_source=context_article\u0026amp;utm_medium=internal\u0026amp;utm_campaign=cop28_newsletter\" href=\"https://www.context.news/newsletters?utm_source=context_article\u0026amp;utm_medium=internal\u0026amp;utm_campaign=cop28_newsletter\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"fui-Link ___10kug0w f3rmtva f1ewtqcl fyind8e f1k6fduh f1w7gpdv fk6fouc fjoy568 figsok6 f1hu3pq6 f11qmguv f19f4twv f1tyq0we f1g0x7ka fhxju0i f1qch9an f1cnd47f fqv5qza f1vmzxwi f1o700av f13mvf36 f1cmlufx f9n3di6 f1ids18y f1tx3yz7 f1deo86v f1eh06m1 f1iescvh fhgqx19 f1olyrje f1p93eir f1nev41a f1h8hb77 f1lqvz6u f10aw75t fsle3fq f17ae5zn\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eSubscribe to our \u003cstrong\u003eClimate. Change.\u003c/strong\u003e newsletter.\u003c/i\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","bodyPart21":"\u003cp\u003eIn recent years, the Amazon has become a drug-trafficking thoroughfare with illicit cargo easily passing through the vast, sparsely populated and thinly policed region.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOrganised crime gangs also launder money through land grabs, illegal mining, logging and other activities, endangering one of the world's most critical and fragile ecosystems.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eProtecting the world's largest rainforest is seen as crucial in the fight against climate change because it absorbs vast amounts of the fossil fuel emissions that drive global warming.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHere's what you need to know about environmental crime in the Amazon and efforts to combat it:\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eHow big a problem is organised crime in the Amazon?\u003c/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOrganised crime groups involved in \u003ca href=\"https://www.context.news/nature/death-and-deforestation-cocaine-trade-adds-to-amazons-woes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003edrug trafficking and production\u003c/a\u003e, illegal logging and mining, and land grabbing are a growing problem in the Amazon and affect the eight countries and one French territory that span the Amazon basin.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA 2018 assessment, co-authored by Interpol, found that \u003ca href=\"https://globalinitiative.net/analysis/world-atlas-of-illicit-flows/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eenvironmental crime\u003c/a\u003e was the world's third most lucrative criminal business, surpassed only by drug trafficking and smuggling.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA 2023 UNODC report said \"significant parts of the Amazon Basin are wracked by a complex \u003ca href=\"https://www.unodc.org/res/WDR-2023/WDR23_B3_CH4_Amazon.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eecosystem of drug crime\u003c/a\u003e (and) crime that affects the environment,\" with illicit activities often happening near Indigenous groups living in the rainforest.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCriminal organisations include a myriad of different groups, from international drug cartels to local crime gangs.\u003c/p\u003e","bodyPart31":"\u003cp\u003eCoca, the raw ingredient for cocaine, has been \u003ca href=\"https://www.context.news/nature/can-colombias-green-businesses-beat-drugs-and-deforestation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003egrown in Colombia's rainforests\u003c/a\u003e since the 1990s and more recently in Peru and Bolivia.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGold has been mined illegally in parts of the Amazon basin since the late 16th century but in recent decades small-scale illegal gold mining has skyrocketed as high prices \u003ca href=\"https://www.context.news/nature/why-are-high-gold-prices-bad-for-the-amazon-rainforest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003etriggered a gold rush\u003c/a\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eHow do crime groups launder money in the Amazon rainforest?\u003c/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe damage being done to the rainforests in Colombia, Peru, Brazil and Bolivia has been described as \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/narco-deforestation-focus-upcoming-summit-amazon-nations-2023-08-03/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003enarco-deforestation\u003c/a\u003e\".\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTraffickers use drug profits to buy forest land - sometimes illegally speculating or else legally buying forest - that is then turned into cattle pastures.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUNODC said drug traffickers also launder money through other agricultural activities, such as soy and palm oil production, and there is growing evidence that traffickers provide finance and logistics for illegal gold mining across the Amazon basin.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUntil April this year, gold could be legally sold in Brazil using simple paper receipts based on the \u003ca href=\"https://www.context.news/nature/how-can-brazil-ramp-up-its-crackdown-on-illegal-gold-miners\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003e\"good faith\" of the seller\u003c/a\u003e, which made inserting illegally mined gold into the formal market relatively easy.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAccording to a report from the Igarap\u0026eacute; Institute, a Brazilian think-tank, criminal organisations tend to diversify into environmental crime because it attracts less attention from authorities and carries \"\u003ca href=\"https://igarape.org.br/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/SP60_FOLLOW-THE-MONEY.pdf?utm_campaign=lavagem_de_dinheiro_1-_email_ingles\u0026amp;utm_medium=email\u0026amp;utm_source=RD+Station\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003ea fraction of the risk\u003c/a\u003e related to drug trafficking\".\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eHow does this crime drive deforestation in the Amazon?\u003c/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eClearing forest to make way for cattle pastures is a \u003ca href=\"https://www.context.news/nature/how-can-brazils-cycle-of-amazon-land-grabs-be-broken\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003ekey driver of deforestation\u003c/a\u003e across the Amazon, particularly in Brazil, home to the largest share of the rainforest, as well as in Colombia and Bolivia.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIllegal gold mining operations also destroy forests, while the mercury used to separate the gold from grit pollutes rivers and contaminates soil and food.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDrug traffickers sometimes also clear trees to build small airstrips and roads to smuggle cocaine, cannabis and synthetic drugs across borders.\u003c/p\u003e","bodyPart41":"\u003ch2\u003eAre there other Latin American countries where money laundering is destroying forests?\u003c/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNarco-deforestation is also a problem in parts of Central America where cocaine traffickers launder their profits by clearing and burning tropical forest to make way for agricultural land and cattle ranches, including in Nicaragua, Honduras and \u003ca href=\"https://www.context.news/just-transition/guatemalas-farmers-take-on-cowboys-in-push-to-restore-maya-forest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eGuatemala\u003c/a\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eWhy is it so hard to combat money laundering in forests?\u003c/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePersistent and high levels of corruption, limited state presence across large and remote forest areas, and a lack of coordination among Amazon countries all help money laundering and other drug-funded environmental crimes go unchecked.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBrazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has introduced a \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/lula-wants-new-brazil-police-unit-tackle-environmental-crimes-2022-11-30/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eseries of measures\u003c/a\u003e to combat organised crime in the Amazon, including plans for a new Federal Police unit focused on environmental crime.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn recent years, Brazil, Colombia and Peru have tried to set up multinational police patrols along their shared borders.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThey have also ramped up efforts to prosecute environmental crimes and established \u003ca href=\"https://longreads.trust.org/item/peru-wonder-woman-gold-mining-illegal-Amazon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003epolice or army environmental protection forces\u003c/a\u003e to combat organised crime and illegal gold mining.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn August, at the relaunch of the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization (ACTO), eight Amazon nations committed to set up an \u003ca href=\"https://www.context.news/nature/amazon-summit-lights-way-for-indigenous-say-in-forest-protection\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eAmazon police cooperation centre\u003c/a\u003e in the Brazilian city of Manaus, aimed at exchanging information among countries.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBut experts say more regional cooperation and coordinated policing efforts are needed to effectively go after the crime groups operating in the Amazon.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e(Reporting by Anastasia Moloney; 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Relentless rain and floods affected the lives and livelihoods of \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/twenty-dead-52-mln-affected-bangladesh-floods-2024-08-25/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003e5 million\u0026nbsp;people in 11 districts\u003c/a\u003e in the Eastern part of the country.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen we talk about the urgency of a deal on mobilising climate finance, these are the people that we cannot fail. 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