# The World Wide Fund for Nature has released a toolkit to help financial institutions reduce their risk of environmental financial crime exposure. Environmental crime is the third-largest illegal activity globally. The Environmental Crime Financial Toolkit can help financial institutions with the screening of new clients and a review of existing ones. According to WWF, the toolkit can also help identify risks related to land conversion, such as deforestation, that could be linked to financial crimes.
WWF develops toolkit for combating environmental financial crime