![]() Transnational organized crime can negatively impact global public health through the widespread and increasing production and trafficking of counterfeit medicines. ![]() Transnational organized crime is a significant barrier to progress on at least four global public goods identified in Our Common Agenda, as explored below. Combating transnational organized crime successfully therefore demands international cooperation. Transnational crime actors systematically exploit jurisdictional gaps and differences in the law enforcement approaches and capacities of different countries. The transnational dimension of much organized crime helps it to evade law enforcement, which is primarily set up to operate within national borders. Recent years have demonstrated all too clearly how seemingly local environmental issues such as deforestation and plastic pollution can have cross-border or global ramifications, and the same is true across other domains as well. Clean air, biodiversity and healthy oceans are prime examples of global public goods. Global public goods benefit all countries and all citizens of the world no one can be excluded from enjoying them, and they cannot be adequately provided by any one state acting alone. Transnational organized crime and global public goods Globalization, digitization and other advances in technology are further changing the nature of illicit markets and the modi operandi of transnational organized crime, recently including the emerging use of cryptocurrencies that make illicit financial flows harder to trace. Some of the typical activities carried out by transnational criminal organizations are trafficking in humans, arms, drugs, minerals and wildlife production and trade of counterfeit goods fraud and extortion money laundering and cybercrime. The groups and networks involved are fluid, and channels for trafficking one commodity are often used for others. Transnational organized crime can take many forms and is constantly evolving. Transnational organized crime occurs when these activities, or these groups or networks, operate in two or more countries. Organized crime has been defined as ‘illegal activities, conducted by groups or networks acting in concert, by engaging in violence, corruption or related activities in order to obtain, directly or indirectly, a financial or material benefit’. One of the most significant and neglected of these risks is transnational organized crime. ![]() While Our Common Agenda is focused on positive principles and norms, we must also seek to mitigate the risks that could undermine progress. ![]() Guterres appointed a High-Level Advisory Board on Effective Multilateralism, co-chaired by former Swedish prime minister and new SIPRI Governing Board Chair Stefan Löfven and former Liberian president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, to develop an independent report on how to strengthen governance arrangements that can deliver on the core global public goods. Our Common Agenda is the secretary-general’s response-a major initiative to reinvigorate multilateralism to benefit all people by advancing the global public goods of peace, a healthy environment, healthy populations and economic stability. Societies and the planet are at risk from the compounding effects of climate change, increasing armed conflict, pandemics, and rising hunger, poverty, injustice and exclusion. In September 2021 United Nations Secretary-General Ant ónio Guterres warned that the world stands at an ‘inflection point’, facing a stark choice between ‘breakdown’ and ‘breakthrough’.
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