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.

With immediate effect, all Planet Tracker’s research papers and blogs are freely available to subscribers to Refinitiv’s real-time research archive,.

London 3 November 2021: Planet Tracker has welcomed the publication of Textile Exchange’s inaugural Textile Exchange Biodiversity Insights and Benchmark Report 2021 which provides the first global baseline for biodiversity for the apparel and textile industry.

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.

Investing in environmental improvements at wet processors can bring positive financial returns.

Lack of external pressure, education and funding are all inhibiting change in sector – investors are key to facilitating transition.

What messages should financial institutions be taking away from last week’s United Nation Convention on Biological Diversity (COP15) in Kunming?

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.