The invasion of Ukraine has pushed sovereign states to reflect on the types of governments with which they trade. Recently, many democratic governments have been assessing their sources of non-renewable natural capital trade – notably oil & gas as well as metals & ores.
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.
How to use the dashboard:
Select a tab in the top bar and hover your mouse over the bar charts to examine individual countries data.
The first three tabs show aggregated categories:
The subsequent tabs show individual categories.
Planet Tracker has used the Economist Intelligence Unit’s (EIU) Democracy Index.
The Democracy Index is based on five categories: electoral process and pluralism, functioning of government, political participation, political culture, and civil liberties. Based on scores on a range of indicators within these categories, each country is then classified as one of four types of regime:
Planet Tracker has classified full democracy and flawed democracy as ‘democratic’ and hybrid regime and authoritarian as ‘non-democratic’.
Planet Tracker is a non-profit financial think tank aligning capital markets with planetary boundaries. It was created in 2018 to investigate the risk of market failure related to environmental limits, focusing on oceans, food & land use and materials such as textiles and plastics.
Planet Tracker is an initiative of Investor Watch, founded by Mark Campanale and Nick Robins. Investor Watch is registered in the UK at Companies House as a not-for-profit company, registration number 06888857.
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