"By prioritizing transparency, incorporating criteria for sustainable & responsible practices, & ensuring that affected communities & stakeholders are systematically consulted on mineral partnerships, countries can strengthen secure critical supply chains." - NRGI+@IEA experts 👇
Big news! We argued individual charges were important for accountability back in 2022 when the corporate conviction came in. Good to see this step from the SFO.
https://t.co/eI3aewMmJu
BREAKING: Alex Beard, the billionaire former head of oil at Glencore, was charged today with corruption by the U.K. white-collar police. Four other Glencore ex-employee were charged too.
UK Serious Fraud Officer statement is below: https://t.co/NEimm3CD79
#OOTT $GLEN
A new government in the UK, and a new approach to anticorruption? @ukaccoalition set out recommendations here - including on the intersection of climate change and corruption, such as in high-risk transition mineral supply chains.
🚨📜🧵 Today we release our brand new anti-corruption agenda for the new government.
It covers 6⃣ key areas, outlining a raft of achievable proposals in each that would make the UK...
🔐 safer
🧼 cleaner
📈 more prosperous
➗ and less divided.
https://t.co/hlR9x87A7W
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NRGI’s @SusFitzgerald highlights corruption risks in the renewable energy mineral supply chain at the #IACC2024:
“There is the risk that the transition won’t happen at the pace needed to address climate change because of the delay that corruption can cause.”
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📢 At the #IACC2024 in Vilnius this week? Join a session on safeguarding a just energy transition in the extractive and energy sectors, featuring NRGI's @SusFitzgerald.
📍 Workshop 2, LITEXPO
📅 Friday 21 June
🕞 3:30 PM to 5:00 PM (CEST)
Learn more: https://t.co/zt36Lgf72D
Not long left to donate to this great campaign shining a light on issues around political power, lobbying, and ownership in Scotland 🔍
May be of interest to networks of @rachelcerysd @swann_tweets @SteveJGoodrich @EndCorruptionUK@AlexJacobs16
🚨 LAST 3 DAYS of our crowdfunding campaign! 🚨
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A huge thanks to everyone who has donated so far and to those who will donate in the coming days. Donate here: https://t.co/tuJ6JEjOM9
@SusFitzgerald@NRGInstitute@BantayKita@OECD 🗣️@SusFitzgerald from @NRGInstitute@OECD Forum now:
"The growing concern at is not just undue influence on the implementation of laws, but on their very content. Policy capture, where powerful interests shape laws to their advantage, must be addressed now more than ever."
🔎 “Es clave avanzar en la transparencia de los ingresos fiscales derivados del #litio (…) no se publican individualizados en las estadísticas oficiales, dificultando su análisis”, advierte nuestro director ejecutivo @benjagarciavial en @La_Segunda 👇🏼
@OECD_BizFin @State_E @BaerbelKofler 🌐 NRGI is also co-organizing an in-person discussion at the 2024 #OECD Forum:
2️⃣ Levers for Policy Action: Exploring Regulation's Role in Responsible Mineral Supply Chains on May 23, featuring @SusFitzgerald.
➡️ https://t.co/Ny7ew5HpHB
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Catch NRGI at the @OECD_BizFin Forum on Responsible Mineral Supply Chains in Paris this month:
1️⃣ Opening Plenary on May 22, ft. NRGI's Erica Westenberg plus @State_E, @LMEnews, @BaerbelKofler and more. Join in person or view online.
➡️ https://t.co/YVVW1dtgEm
#OECDrbc
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🔵 New Report! We have analysed almost 80 cases of climate corruption around the world.
The impact of corruption in climate finance goes beyond mitigation & adaptation and is the catalyst for human rights abuses, weakened democratic processes and organised crime.
Read more ➡️ https://t.co/vR45Dbm31e
Miss this timely intervention on state-state mining deals from NRGI's @SusFitzgerald this week? Catch up with the video recording:
📺 https://t.co/XnI5jh0BF4
"Deals Without Details? State-State Mining Partnerships and Their Implications"
Tomorrow at 3:50 pm BST (10:50 am EDT) hear NRGI's @SusFitzgerald as she speaks at the online @RawResponsible conference.
📺 Livestream: https://t.co/UlqLfDLzjF
📋 Agenda: https://t.co/UlqLfDLzjF
We've secured three nominations for Scottish Press Awards! 🎉Our Scotland's secret owners series is up for Journalist team of the year, our Sheku Bayoh podcast for podcast of the year and we've got a nom for the Nicola Barry award too. Wish us luck! 🤞
🔍 Want to tackle corruption in #extractives? Join a @PWYPtweets & NRGI webinar on 18 April to hear how NRGI's corruption diagnostic tool empowers anticorruption actors. Featuring insights from:
@BantayKita
@PWYPtweets
@ti_zambia@NRGInstitute
Register: https://t.co/PA4yB9YOue
🔴NEW: Over 100 people from the oil and gas sector have taken up senior government roles under the Conservatives, and two dozen have left such positions to work for major oil companies.
Read more here: https://t.co/47omRohyUD
LONG READ: Inside a years-long bribery scheme by the world's top oil trader that the FBI caught on tape. The case has shone a light on corruption in the global commodity trading industry.
Read the story, watch the tapes:
https://t.co/zaciDgprct