Nature, Guns & Money
Nature, Guns and Money (NGM) is a cross-sectoral policy forum for cutting-edge analysis of environmental crime as a foreign policy and national security issue. NGM’s starting point is that environmental crime demands a holistic response, beyond a conservationist lens. NGM is managed by RUSI and Focused Conservation.
The Role of Beneficial Ownership in Combating IUU Fishing
At their meeting this week, the G7 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors should endorse the adoption of global beneficial ownership registries to help end illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing and other forms of environmental crime that are enabled by complex corporate structures. In an unprecedented year for climate action, the…
Preventing Future Zoonotic Pandemics: US Pandemic Relief Bill
The American Rescue Plan addresses the root cause of zoonotic pandemics like Covid-19 by clearly signalling that illegal wildlife trade (IWT) is an international security threat. On Thursday, 11 March, President Joe Biden signed into law the American Rescue Plan, a $1.9 Trillion pandemic relief and stimulus law for the US…