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The Missing Guests at COP27? Drug Barons
Clemmie James: As global leaders meet at COP27, they could do worse than offer members of Transnational Organised Crime a seat at the table.
Because when it comes to the pledges that will be made in Sharm El Sheikh – whether that's stopping deforestation, protecting indigenous land rights, financing community responses to wildfires or implementing climate resilient development – it's unlikely the people in the room will have the power to fulfil them.
Organised crime controls some of our planet's most environmentally critical landscapes. The jungles of south-east Asia, forests of west Africa and the rainforests of central and south America are some of the planet's largest carbon sinks and key to our climate future. This equatorial line also correlates to the world's major drug trafficking routes. Where the illicit drug trade thrives so does corruption, because prohibition is the mother of organised crime.
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