Planet Tracker’s interactive Seafood Database enables users to filter through companies and compare their exposure to overfishing, illegal fishing and blue sustainability risks.

In November, formal negotiations on a legally binding treaty to end plastic pollution will commence and in the next 2 years the treaty will discuss the full life cycle of plastic. Click here to learn more about the policy negotiations and how plastic consumption can affect them.

Planet Tracker has developed a dashboard that maps the trade of key renewable agricultural exports to their sources by political systems. Most exposed to disruption from non-democratic states are cotton, fish and cereals, in descending order. Meat could be vulnerable if feedstock supplies were impacted.

These predictions for 2022 from the Planet Tracker Team are specifically relevant to the global financial markets.

A new Planet Tracker report examines the limited role of stock exchanges in protecting investors from publicly listed companies involved in illegal fishing practices and offers an alternative way for investors to assess their exposure to illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing.

A new Planet Tracker report examines the limited role of stock exchanges in protecting investors from publicly listed companies involved in illegal fishing practices and offers an alternative way for investors to assess their exposure to illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing.

Last week, Blackrock wrote a letter to CEOs of the companies Blackrock invests in and another to the company’s clients. Both these letters discuss in detail the various approaches that Blackrock intends to take to climate risk, sustainable reporting and a variety of other related issues. But the number of times deforestation gets a mention in either letter? Zero. This omission is surprising. Deforestation is a crucial factor in climate change. It accounts for nearly 20% of all greenhouse gas emissions — more than the world’s entire transport sector.

After two decades of negotiations, a partial ban on capacity-enhancing (i.e., harmful) fisheries subsidies is finally within the World Trade Organization’s reach. Some countries will be exempt from this ban. The thresholds retained to be exempt might be subject to change as the current WTO negotiations develop.

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.

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.