High Risk Geographies

As oil and gas companies face serious dangers to their infrastructure from new climate risks in the Gulf of Mexico, as well as their own failure to prepare, the pressure to engage in financial fraud could be high.

Offshore drilling poses a significant threat to the North Sea and its surrounding environment. With 184 rigs currently in its waters, the sea is one of the largest offshore drilling areas in the world.

With illegal deforestation threatening the Congo Basin rainforest, industry whistleblowers could play an important role in revealing evidence of illegal deforestation and the financial schemes that enable illegally-sourced timber to be sold around the world.