• After two decades of negotiations, a partial ban on capacity-enhancing (i.e., harmful) fisheries subsidies is finally within the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) reach. If agreed it will impact global…

Globally, financial regulators are quite rightly investigating sustainability claims made by asset managers. Investors have a right to know whether sustainable and ESG funds do exactly what it says on…

The listing of approximately 8% of Raízen for R$ 7 billion (USD 1.4 billion) looks imminent. How will sustainable investors view one of Brazil’s largest stock market listings to date?…

Shorting should be part of a sustainable investor’s toolkit; Planet Tracker views this as compatible with ESG investing although some may disagree. It allows for a more efficient market and…

This blog explores how the same biotechnological improvements that are contributing to the rapid growth in alternative food proteins are also opening new possibilities for textiles and materials.

The new Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report released this week is categorical – climate change is real and the impacts are being experienced today, not at some point in the future.

Why should sustainable investors be interested in Vanguard, a USD 8 trillion asset manager, buying Just Invest, which manages a mere USD 1 billion? For three main reasons. One, Vanguard…

A first of its kind collaboration between IPBES and IPCC, the two intergovernmental organizations addressing biodiversity loss and climate change, means they are using their respective science-policy platforms to align these two important efforts more closely.

On World Ocean Day, Planet Tracker investigates the fate of fishing vessels that are past their ’use by’ date. As fishing fleets across the world age, they are likely to be beached, which destroys ecosystems and costs human lives.

The role of a robust second-hand market to increase the useful lifetime of clothing has become a central tenet of circular fashion. Who will be the winners of the resale boom?

A revision of the Japanese Corporate Governance Code has been proposed and includes a greater focus on sustainability. Yet Japanese companies already have a high rate of sustainability reporting. The opposite is true for biodiversity though. Excluding biodiversity is a missed opportunity.

Governments are setting the scene for international discussions in 2021 with major power blocks involved – China, EU, UK, US – under the auspices of the G20.

Although BlackRock has become increasing vocal about climate change in recent years, natural capital impacts are now on its engagement menu. We applaud them for this move.

February saw H&M jump on fashion’s latest trend, as they issued a €500m sustainability-linked bond which they will use to meet their 2025 sustainability targets.

At the end of last week, EU legislators reached an agreement on the expenditure of EUR 6.1 billion (USD 7.4 billion) which is to be allocated to fisheries and aquaculture for 2021 to 2027.

Formosa Petrochemical Corp’s USD 10 billion single-use plastics Sunshine Project facility in Louisiana had its licence suspended by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on 4 November 2020. Now, major construction has stopped.

The UK exports most of its seafood catch to EU neighbours and then imports fish for domestic consumption

California has just leapt ahead of the EU in the plastic bottling recycling innovation race with some of the most stringent recycling requirements globally.

The European Parliament’s Committee on the Environment (ENVI) has voted to bring more transparency to the European Union fishing industry. These proposals mark progress towards ensuring sustainability in seafood supply and marine ecosystems in the EU.

The natural foundations for human prosperity are being undermined at an alarming rate, yet according to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) the financial solutions currently on the table will be insufficient to halt or reverse the decline.