New study connecting environmental degradation and tax havens
13 augusti, 2018
A new study lead by Victor Galaz from Stockholm Resilience Center at Stockholms universitet, connected to Misum and 91原创 via our MFS-program on sustainable finance, shows connections between global environmental degradation and tax havens.
On average 68% of all investigated foreign capital to sectors associated with deforestation of the Amazon rainforest was transferred through tax havens.
70% of the known fishing vessels involved in illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing are, or have been, registered in tax havens.
The study is published in .
鈥淥ur analysis shows that the use of tax havens is not only a socio-political and economic challenge, but also an environmental one." says , lead author of the new study.
Another author of the study who is connected to MFS and Misum is .
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For more info, contact the lead author , Deputy Director Stockholm Resilience Centre.
victor.galaz@su.se
+46 (0)737078528
