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Greening energy: An anti-corruption primer

It is widely acknowledged that corruption is used to artificially extend the life of carbon-intensive industries, yet green energy itself is far from immune from corrupt practices.

14 November 2022

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Zambia’s anti-corruption regime 2001–2021 in the renewable energy sector

Zambia needs structural reforms such as reducing the president’s executive powers and debarring corrupt renewable energy companies in order to reduce…

30 January 2022

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Community forestry and reducing corruption: Perspectives from the Peruvian Amazon

It is essential to involve the indigenous communities in preserving the forest that they themselves depend on.

24 May 2022

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Corruption, informality and power: Explaining the limits to institutional approaches for tackling illegal logging in Peru

Addressing corruption in the forest sector requires an understanding of the role of political and informal power arrangements that shape individual…

20 September 2021

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Corruption as a facilitator of illegal fishing

Approaches that may disrupt corruption in fisheries include: strengthening on-the-ground anti-corruption capacity; fostering national interagency…

10 May 2021

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E-payments in Vietnam’s forest sector: An effective anti-corruption innovation?

Greening energy: An anti-corruption primer

Corruption and water governance in the Mekong River Basin

Community forestry and reducing corruption: Perspectives from the Peruvian Amazon

Beyond the institutional fix? The potential of strategic litigation to target natural resource corruption

Zambia’s anti-corruption regime 2001–2021 in the renewable energy sector

Corruption, informality and power: Explaining the limits to institutional approaches for tackling illegal logging in Peru

Corruption as a facilitator of illegal fishing

Colombian fisheries and aquaculture sector: Overview of corruption

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