Strong growth in athleisure sales amidst a COVID-19 driven online acceleration has been a rare bright spot in a challenging operating environment for the apparel industry. Yet the related increase in synthetic fibre use is likely to extend and deepen water-related risks to human and animal health.
Seafood, the most traded food globally, is operating with a broken supply chain. Bottlenecks are apparent at both processors and distributors. If the seafood market were working efficiently, harvesting output would have fallen more dramatically. To date, lower seafood prices have failed to stop this oversupply, which means that seafood waste is rising.
As natural capital related losses in agricultural production and trade materialise, Argentina’s debt-paying capacity will likely be compromised. Sovereign investors and the IMF are heavily incentivised to demand a clear and credible pathway to achieving zero deforestation, in turn, bolstering Argentina’s mid-term attractiveness for investment.
Deep inside the EU’s seven-year budget and recovery plan, which was approved on Friday 24 July, is a plastics’ waste levy of €800/tonne that comes into force in January 2021, despite the fact that insufficient recycling infrastructure exists throughout the EU.
China’s distant water fleets dependant on subsidy for profitability; SDG investors need to take note.
Alexandra Pinzon, Nick Robins and Gabriel Thoumi explore how investors in sovereign bonds can take action to confront the risks of deforestation. 2020 could well go down as the year…
Last month, the EU Commmission launched two groundbreaking strategies – Farm-to-Fork and EU Biodiviersity – both intended to decrease the natural capital footprint of the EU’s food and agriculture system.…
Today, 5 June 2020, is not only the International Day for the Fight against Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) fishing, but also marks the 4th anniversary of the Agreement on…
South Africa’s economy is suffering from economic structural risks and natural capital degradation, pushing sectors of its economy – from agriculture to banking to energy to transport – into decline…
In these uncertain times, as supply chains are challenged by the twin risks of decreasing consumer demand and safety and the upstream challenges of production and transport, capital markets’ conversations…
The impact of COVID-19 on the global economy is just beginning to become clear. On 7 April, the International Labour Organization (ILO) cited expected worldwide job losses at 195 million.[i]…
Selling by foreign portfolio investors decreased India’s foreign exchange reserves by $12 billion in March 2020.[i] India’s largest foreign exchange earner, its IT and outsourcing industries, have been hit badly…
The agribusiness sector, with over 5,600 different traded commodities[i] valued at more than $5 trillion annually, contributes 37 percent to global Scope 1, 2 and 3 greenhouse gas (GhG) emissions.…
As of Thursday 26 March, and before the $2 trillion U.S. stimulus package and U.S. Fed moves come into force, the last time the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones…
Supporting the European Green Deal[i] in aide of carbon neutrality and as part of the European Commission’s Action Plan on Financing Sustainable Growth,[ii] the Study on Due Diligence Requirements Through…
As we enter 2020, the EU is moving forward with four key overarching policy objectives, in line with the Commission's legislative proposals from May 2018, as part of its Sustainable…
Plastics in of themselves are not bad – plastics in many cases improve life quality. Yet it is clear that how we are managing the production, use and waste processes…
In their infinite wisdom, because water mysteriously arrives each day in plastic bottles from supermarkets, the Republican administration last week stripped protections for streams, wetlands and groundwater in the U.S.…
The World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, ended last week and the verdict is in – Everything is ESG – as the theme for this year’s annual meeting…
Anyone can use a fire extinguisher; using one requires no special skills. Yet Australia’s fires remind us that fires, driven by extreme weather and climate change, not only burn the…
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