London’s vast gold market gives the UK leverage – and responsibility – on illicit gold A coalition of 34 civil society organisations has called for urgent action on tainted gold ahead of the UK’s Illicit Finance Summit, warning that London’s central role in the global gold trade gives the UK a particular responsibility to confront
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With the worsening crises of climate change, biodiversity loss, and industrial levels of pollution, the need for urgent environmental action is clear. The Clean and Green Manifesto, developed in consultation with civil society groups, identifies five areas of consensus where anti-corruption efforts could help tackle environmental harm to promote an economy that is both clean
A new report by the Environmental Investigation Agency and PremiCongo raises serious concerns about pollution and public health risks linked to operations at the Tenke Fungurume Mining (TFM) site in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The report, Toxic Transition, documents large emissions of sulphur dioxide (SO₂) from TFM’s processing facilities since 2023. According to the investigation, these emissions
Rights and Accountability in Development (RAID) has made a submission to the UN Special Rapporteur on the human right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment, highlighting systemic failures in how Environmental Impact Assessments (EIAs) are carried out and enforced in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) copper-cobalt mining region. Our submission seeks to inform