With additional resources from the Andes-Amazon Initiative, FACT will work to close regulatory loopholes, increase enforcement efforts, and improve collaboration between the U.S. and governments in the Andes-Amazon region to mitigate illicit financial flows from environmental crimes in the Amazon.
The Senior Policy Advisor for Environmental Crimes and Illicit Finance will lead and manage the FACT Coalition secretariat’s growing portfolio of work at the intersection of environmental and financial crime.
Treasury’s revised beneficial ownership information reporting form incorporates critical feedback from FACT and its allies, removing fields that would have introduced unprecedented optionality to reporting under the Corporate Transparency Act.
A full recording is now available for the launch of FACT’s new report analyzing the linkages between U.S. financial secrecy and environmental crimes in the Amazon region.
Ahead of COP27, the U.S. can certainly point proudly to its historic investments of hundreds of billions of dollars into clean energy. An additional way for the Biden administration to bolster its climate policy is by finishing the job on a slew of anti-corruption reforms.
As world leaders gather this week in New York for the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), an epidemic of offshore wealth looms large over efforts to safeguard a turbulent post-pandemic world. Faced with myriad unpredictable crises, ranging from historic floods and droughts to widespread food scarcity and brewing recessionary fears, governments around the world are facing a need to raise revenues to stave off disasters and have a chance to meet the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.
