Growing environmental crime fuels global instability

Environmental crime is worse than previously thought, and its effects are felt beyond the obvious impacts on the planet

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  • Direct damage to the ecosystem
  • Undermining attempts to control climate change
  • Endangering vulnerable wildlife
  • Wider implications
  • Funding other crimes
  • Fuelling instability
  • Exacerbating corruption
  • Undermining economies
  • Responses
  • Criminal adaptability

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