Sustainability: Environmental Issues

UN Climate Action's page, "Greenwashing – the deceptive tactics behind environmental claims"

To see if a product or a business is genuine or if they’re greenwashing, look for 4 things: buzzwords, evidence, verification and sustainability.

Greenwash.com was created by the Changing Markets Foundation, a non-profit formed to accelerate and scale up solutions to sustainability challenges by leveraging the power of markets.

Business News Daily article explaining greenwash and how to avoid it.

The Global Environmental Justice Atlas (EJAtlas) documents and catalogues social conflicts around environmental issues.

For more than 50 years, Greenpeace has been sailing the world’s oceans protecting our planet and fighting for environmental justice.

Provides a platform to promote greater debate and innovative approaches, which serve as the building blocks to an inclusive global strategy against organized crime.

The Environment Team of the UNODC Border Management Branch assists Member States to prevent and respond to crimes that affect the environment such as wildlife and forest crime, crimes in the fisheries sector, illegal mining, and trafficking in precious metals and waste. Crimes that affect the environment are serious organized crime with far-reaching impacts for the economy, security, the environment, and human health, contributing to biodiversity loss and climate change.

FATF Standards require that countries criminalise money laundering for a range of environmental crimes.

Our Environmental Security Unit is leading the global effort to bring players together to fight crimes against our planet.