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Policy Position 4/2011: Safeguarding Mitigation Efforts for Sustainability

The objectives of climate change mitigation projects are undermined when they do not meet sustainable development criteria and transparency standards. In such cases, international mitigation mechanisms are weakened, corruption risks are increased and investment is compromised. To avoid such outcomes, institutional safeguards, effective decision-making structures and public oversight mechanisms are needed.

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Transparency International Annual Report 2009

Corruption has no conscience. When allowed to spread, its corrosive effects destroy trust and fuel injustice, regardless of geography or sector. Transparency International works around the world to foster greater transparency and accountability in government and business, and empower people to demand their rights. Our 2009 Annual Report provides compelling evidence of how the global anti-corruption movement is making concrete gains against corruption.

ISBN: 978-3-935711-53-1

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Working Paper No 01/2011: Reducing demand for illegal timber: Targeting corruption in customs and procurement

Illegal timber finds its way into the consumer markets. A crucial aspect of stemming the flow of and demand for illegal timber is improving customs and procurement regulations in importing countries.

ISSN 1998-6408

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Working Paper No 03/2010: Corruption in Logging Licenses & Concessions

Corruption is one of the main drivers of illegal logging. It runs through the whole timber production and marketing chain. Corruption in logging is fuelled by a range of factors,1 such as the lack of institutional capacity to monitor and enforce existing legal and policy frameworks, low transparency and accountability, and overall weak governance.
ISSN 1998-6408

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Working Paper No 07/2010:Timber Trafficking and Laundering: An Anti-Corruption Approach

Timber trafficking is a trans-national problem. The high profits involved in the illegal timber trade provide incentives for smugglers to launder illegal timber for sale on international markets. This paper argues how an anti-corruption approach to the problem may help to finally break the trafficking chain.
ISSN 1998-6408

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Working Paper No. 1/2007 Corruption and Renewable Natural Resources

There is important evidence to suggest that corruption is a key contributing factor to the degradation of renewable natural resources. Corrupt forestry officials or law enforcement officers who are in the pockets of unscrupulous logging firms will turn a blind eye to illegal forestry activities, threatening sustainable management of the forest's biodiversity storehouse. Similarly, fisheries inspectors endanger the sustainability of fish stocks by accepting bribes from trawling companies intent on ignoring official quotas. More broadly, poor governance may translate into sub-standard environmental policy formulation and implementation, where narrow interest groups determine the common 'environmental good'. And, in extreme cases, high-level political corruption can facilitate the wholesale plunder of a country's natural resource base.

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